It’s no wonder that Google, Red Hat and others have been abandoning Oracle’s most visible open-source project, MySQL. After all, Oracle has a highly conflicted relationship with open source. Nowhere is this conflict more apparent than in a new white paper Oracle released for the U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) in which Oracle suggests open source costs more and is less reliable.
Unfortunately for Oracle, the DOD has its own white paper on open source—several, actually—which directly contradicts Oracle’s key arguments.
Oracle’s Love-Hate Relationship With Open Source
Oracle is an odd beast. Throughout the whitepaper, Oracle somewhat accurately proclaims itself “one of the biggest proponents and contributors to open source within the
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