Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Wed 24th Nov 2004 20:48 UTC
We had the pleasure of having a quick chat with Sun's COO, Jonathan Schwartz, yesterday. We talked about a variety of things, including Java, Solaris, Red Hat and good ol' Unix.
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"Regardless of the semantics, the *practical end result* (all that matters out in the real world) is that using Redhat as an alternative to Solaris (ie: because you need something Redhat has that other Linux variants don't) results in just as much lockin."
regardless of the technial difficulties of migrating from oracle to postgresql or whatever you are missing the point which is
Linux which is free software does not create any lock in.
Redhat which is a Free/Open source software does NOT create a lock in
what creates a lock in this case is the binary and proprietary blob of code called "oracle:"
if you use proprietary systems like oracle or solaris then the end result is lock in
if you choose to use Free/Open Source software there is evidently and obsolutely no lock in ever possible
if you choose proprietary thats your choice and I have nothing against that. However Linux and Redhat DO NOT create any lock since they are open source licensed. this makes possible clones like caos or whitebox linux
remember that