“The success of Linux and other open source projects has
depended heavily on the support and investment of major IT
companies, Oracle Chief Executive Officer Larry Ellison said on
Thursday.“‘Open source becomes successful when major industrial
corporations invest heavily in that open source project,’ Ellison
said at a Tokyo news conference. ‘Every open source product that
has become tremendously successful became successful because of
huge dollar investments from commercial IT operations like IBM and
Intel and Oracle and others,’ he said…”