Larry Ellison, "Mission Accomplished"


So Larry has caused another splash in the press, in time for RHT's earnings call. Basically, Oracle has released a list of companies that "allegedly" have switched from RHT's "real RHEL" to Oracle's "magical mystery RHEL".

Funny thing is, Larry spoke of Yahoo! as a switcher on a earnings call and Yahoo! quickly denied the rumor. How embarassing, but if it makes you feel better, Larry, I have been there too :) It may be true, I know from experience that big IT shops do not like to be referenced, not for tiny JBoss and, apparently, not even for big mighty Oracle.

Whatever the case may be, this strategy of dipping one's toe in the water and declaring victory reminded me of another "successful invasion" supported with "faulty intelligence" where we are constantly reminded of "how we are winning, but "we need to send more troops to consolidate our winnings, because, you know, we are winning". See picture for hint.

It is clear by now that ORA is going nowhere with a Linux distribution. Larry may be declaring "mission accomplished," but no one cares in the market place. This leaves us to interpret the noise as ego and vindictiveness towards RHT, or a strategy to beat up their stock and buy them on the cheap.

I was amused by the Sys-con made-up quote of "Larry Ellison: hide your wives and daughters". Having worked with the good soccer moms of Raleighwood, trust me, the emotion is wasted. It doesn't matter who is at the helm of that ship. Open Source is a brute force of nature; it's just momentum. RHT is reaping the rewards of early entry and brand hegemony.

Take it from an ego-maniacal frenchman: Open Source is Russia. You think you can invade it. Sure, you can walk in easily enough, the borders are wide open. You can occupy land there, but you can't force your way into the minds of the people. You can even reach Moscow, but all you'll find is a deserted city. Eventually the terrain will swallow you up. You either become assimilated or you get frustrated by the irrelevance and go home.

Unlike Russia, however, RHT can be bought. So just buy the freaking company, already. You get 2 leaders, RHEL and JBoss. Everything else is a plan B. Do it before the improbable happens and SUNW wakes up from its Solaris/ass-fish meth-addiction and buys them first.

Disclosure: I am not associated with RHT management anymore. I still own a buttload of stock that I would love to see go back to $28 a share.

marcf

Comments

Max said…
What happend to the blog title !? Are you getting soft ? :)
adt43wt342 said…
yup, going mainstream as you can see :)
Roy Russo said…
Funny you mention ORA buying RedHat to "get it over with" in the same posting you reference the Iraq war, as it would likely play out the same way. Big guy jumps in wanting to "control the oil", everyone fragments (forks) in to different fractions. Then again, in this scenario, your portfolio value would likely go up. ;-)
adt43wt342 said…
Yup, portfolio would do fine. Although today was a good day (up and down though) I did disclose that :)

OSS is indeed VERY fragmented. Where there is no money there is just ego. Put 2 guys in OSS in a room and they will disagree VIOLENTLY over the colors of the font.

Put a profit motive around it, a company and you get a different story. People align... money is the root of all good self-order :)

Doing it right is feasible. At RHT, we really haven't lost anyone in development. Not even you, Grand Pubah of Portal, last I checked ;) how is your love of W doing these days?
Roy Russo said…
I love W, but he really should consult ME and Roman history on how to properly conquer nations and build an empire.

Anyway... I can neither confirm nor deny publicly whether any developers have left or unleft. ;-)
Unknown said…
Glassfish isn't half bad. Of course if JBossAS gains too many more memory leaks especially in the perm space... (changing titles means marc is bored out of his mind and thinking of jumping in again ;-) ) Still waiting for the Alice Cooper with longer nails picture....(this was the image I got)
Roy Russo said…
Does glassfish leak as much mem as something like... oh... POI?! ;-)
adt43wt342 said…
bored? yeah you bet I am bored. "Retired at 38, at the peak of my game".

Ready to jump back in? mmmh I don't think so. I am recuperating from 7 years of intense nerve banging and it feels good. We will see, right now: indefinite shabbatt.

marcf
Jeff Haynie said…
You need to go get a job at Opera

:)
Jeff Haynie said…
oh marcf, sorry, i just re-read the job posting -- "good looks and positive attitude" are required -- that might eliminate you. sorry... LOL.
Unknown said…
POI doesn't leak memory it just requires a lot of memory (it creates objects out of every binary record for example each cell). Of course how is the code you wrote 7 years ago doing (mine is used in every major financial institution in the world)? Oh yeah...
Roy Russo said…
I'm glad you asked. My 8 year-old Perl scripts are still spamming... err... running, and they don't take 4GB of RAM and a JVM to run.

I've found theres no advantage to using POI, than the old tried-n-true method of piping a csv and changing the mime-type in the response header. Ya, its 1999 for me, but it works. ;-)

Hope you learned your lesson. Don't start a blogwar over this, I'll just crush you again. kthnxbye.
adt43wt342 said…
I love it when Roy pretends to be a real developer. As if "real" developers used PHP.
Unknown said…
I NEVER have advocated using the XLS file format Roy. It is terrible. Anything that has pointers to the body in the header has a "pre-Internet point of view". Thank god MS is going to XML. My C++ windows service that processes cell phone AKEYs (because it took 2 hours on the mainframe and 2 seconds on a PC) "securely" is probably still running somewhere. Shit by now its probably not on an old desktop box that no one wanted (because it was a mere Pentium Pro IIRC in the era of Pentium II)... My point, same as marc's: you're not a real man, take off those shorts...put on a dress :-)
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