Oracle Declares War On Cloud and Open Source | Linux Today

Oracle Declares War On Cloud and Open Source

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Ron Miller
May 15, 2012

Even Oracle might not have known what it had when it brought Google to trial, but when the trial began to turn around the idea of copyrighting APIs, it couldn’t have gone better for an old-school enterprise software company with a lot to lose if the cloud and open source continue to take over IT.

RM

Ron Miller

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