Comments on: Open Source Adoption – a Survey of Surveys http://blog.softwhere.org/archives/558 Musings on the world of software from the sharp end of the long tail Mon, 19 Dec 2011 10:45:07 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Rich Sharples’ Blog » Blog Archive » JBoss and MASS Migration http://blog.softwhere.org/archives/558/comment-page-1#comment-3884 Rich Sharples’ Blog » Blog Archive » JBoss and MASS Migration Wed, 11 Feb 2009 15:40:22 +0000 http://blog.softwhere.org/?p=558#comment-3884 [...] customers move - it’s not the reason they stay once they have made the move. According to recent surveys - Vendor Independence, Quality, Value and Innovation rank highly as reasons people prefer open [...] [...] customers move – it’s not the reason they stay once they have made the move. According to recent surveys – Vendor Independence, Quality, Value and Innovation rank highly as reasons people prefer open [...]

]]> By: sharps http://blog.softwhere.org/archives/558/comment-page-1#comment-3484 sharps Fri, 19 Dec 2008 20:25:43 +0000 http://blog.softwhere.org/?p=558#comment-3484 Pat, by that you mean Sun should've got a mention ? Well Sun are clearly a supporter of Open Source technology - noone's disputing that, but the second part of IDC report ranks HP, IBM, Oracle as *the* major commercial vendors distributing, supporting and servicing Open Source. Red Hat and Sun pick up 3rd and 4th place respectively in the various categories. HP and IBM shouldn't be a surprise - both are huge companies with very large service orgs. and they ship millions of boxes with pre-installed Linux, MySQL, Apache, etc.. Oracle ranking so highly seems an anomaly as IDC claims : "Another anomaly we note in Table 4 is the fact that Oracle is named as the source of executable code for 13% of the MySQL project mentions. The main database engine of MySQL, InnoDB, is owned by Oracle, and perhaps respondents combined InnoDB and MySQL together as MySQL in their responses to these questions. IDC doubts that 13% of the MySQL mentions are actually receiving the full implementation of MySQL executables from Oracle, given that MySQL is competitive with Oracle’s own commercial products." The hardware vendor section of that same report is very interesting and suggests that Sun has a long way to go before catching up with HP, IBM and Dell in terms of monetizing OSS through hardware drag. - Rich Pat, by that you mean Sun should’ve got a mention ?

Well Sun are clearly a supporter of Open Source technology – noone’s disputing that, but the second part of IDC report ranks HP, IBM, Oracle as *the* major commercial vendors distributing, supporting and servicing Open Source. Red Hat and Sun pick up 3rd and 4th place respectively in the various categories. HP and IBM shouldn’t be a surprise – both are huge companies with very large service orgs. and they ship millions of boxes with pre-installed Linux, MySQL, Apache, etc.. Oracle ranking so highly seems an anomaly as IDC claims :

“Another anomaly we note in Table 4 is the fact that Oracle is named as the source of executable code for 13% of the MySQL project mentions. The main database engine of MySQL, InnoDB, is owned by Oracle, and perhaps respondents combined InnoDB and MySQL together as MySQL in their responses to these questions. IDC doubts that 13% of the MySQL mentions are actually receiving the full implementation of MySQL executables from Oracle, given that MySQL is competitive with Oracle’s own commercial products.”

The hardware vendor section of that same report is very interesting and suggests that Sun has a long way to go before catching up with HP, IBM and Dell in terms of monetizing OSS through hardware drag.

- Rich

]]> By: Pat Patterson http://blog.softwhere.org/archives/558/comment-page-1#comment-3483 Pat Patterson Fri, 19 Dec 2008 20:05:36 +0000 http://blog.softwhere.org/?p=558#comment-3483 "without huge companies like IBM, Oracle and HP distributing and support Open Source technology" Hmmm.... How quickly we forget, eh, Rich? “without huge companies like IBM, Oracle and HP distributing and support Open Source technology”

Hmmm…. How quickly we forget, eh, Rich?

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