What's between oracle and open source?

What's between oracle and open source?
GuideOracle has made some contributions to open-source projects, making it an object of ridicule In the open-source world. At the JavaOne Conference held in San Francisco in, CEOScott McNealy from Sun Microsystems appeared in the Java anniversary video, he provides an ironic list of "12 nightmare of Java developers", article 4: "You like open source and sharing, but you work in Oracle.

This makes the developers present laugh, but it also shows the image of Oracle among developers. The following lists some of Oracle's open source events:

December 2009

MySQL creator Ulf Michael "Monty" Widenius initiated a petition to the European Union (EU predecessor) to block Oracle's acquisitionSun MicrosystemSun MicrosystemsAt that time, Sun Microsystem just acquired MySQL for a year. Widenius predicts that if Sun Microsystems is acquired, Oracle may close a portion of the MySQL source.

January 2010

Oracle completed its acquisition of Sun Microsystems.

February 2010

Oracle excludes OpenSolaris from its product roadmap.

March 2010

Simon Phipps, an open-source officer of Sun Microsystems, left the company when the two companies merged.

April 2010

James Gosling, father of Java, left Oracle and later said the company "challenged morality ".

August 2010

Oracle internal memos inform employees that OpenSolaris will be suspended and Solaris and ZFS will also be "disabled ".

The OpenSolaris Management Board is dissolved.

Open OpenSolaris and ZFS project Illumos.

Multiple MySQL team members left and joined Rackspace to participate in the development of the MySQL branch Drizzle project.

September 2010

Some members of the OpenOffice.org community left and createdDocument FoundationThe Document Foundation(TDF), and spent the LibreOffice project. They invited Oracle to join the document Foundation.

October 2010

Oracle asked the document Foundation members to leave the OpenOffice.org project on the grounds of "conflict of interest" and refused to join the document Foundation.

LibreOffice officially becomes a branch that replaces OpenOffice.org.

Oracle closed the source HPC platform (formerly calledSun Grid Computing EngineSun Grid Engine) To open-source maintenance.Open Grid Computing SchedulerOpen Grid SchedulerProject. Four months later, the entire grid computing team left and joined Univa.

December 2010

Apache FoundationApache FoundationThe Apache Harmony open-source Java implementation version provided a technical compatibility solution. After Oracle refused to permit the solution, the Apache Foundation resigned.Java Community ProcessJava Community Process(JCP) the Executive Director's seat of the Organization.

January 2011

Oracle applied for the trademark "Hudson", which is the name of an open-source Java continuous integration platform (the Community later voted to change it to "Jenkins "), oracle continues to develop the project with its own name "Hudson.

April 2011

Oracle stopped OpenOffice.org and OracleOpenOffice development. Two months later, the company donated the code to the Apache Foundation.

September 2011

Oracle announced that it would release MySQL's commercial expansion, and the project will no longer be completely open-source, becoming"Open-source KernelOpen core"Mode.

June 2013

Oracle has changed the open-sourceBerkeley DBBerkeley DB(BDB) license, from a BSD-style Public License to the Affero General Public License, it requires the user to provide the source code of their application to anyone who connects to their application through the network with the GPLv3 or AGPL license. This is widely regarded as either threatening users to buy commercial licenses for their applications, or trying to get rid of them.Berkeley DBBerkeley DB(BDB ).

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Editor: Yang Pengfei, reviewer: Yan zengbao