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What I think about technology and business, especially with respect to the world's 'flattener' open source and the advance of object-oriented paradigms in computing, including in databases

Victory of Open Source, Measured by Dumpware

Another victory of open source over closed-source vendors is now official when Oracle dumped its Toplink O/R mapper (which had performed dismally against Hibernate) into the open source space.

We have seen those dumpware projects before with Ingres, Versant's JDO and so on.  None of them has been successful.  It's just a decent form of capitulation.  I would be interested how many million dollars of write-off Oracle booked for that.

Published Wednesday, March 07, 2007 6:26 PM by Christof
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