From Oracle’s Conference Call

Courtesy of Seeking Alpha:

Kash Rangan – Merrill Lynch
Larry, since we have you on, could you elaborate on your comments in the press related to getting into the Linux operating systems business? How should we think about that?
Larry Ellison
Well, I’m thinking a general comment about Open Source. The interesting thing about Open Source — and I don’t want to spend a lot of time on it today — the interesting thing about Open Source is it’s free to everybody, even Oracle. So, Oracle could choose to just take a copy of anyone’s Open Source, and as long as we could support it better than an Open Source company, we could suddenly leap frog them and become the number one distributor.
It was just interesting. It is interesting to evaluate Open Source and understand that they don’t own any of their intellectual property. It is free for us to take and support, which we may in fact, do in the future.

Posted by on June 23rd, 2006 at 8:50 pm


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