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PS: Sun has always been one of the great companies I admired before, and also a leader in open source community and technological innovation. Sun's acquisition by Oracle has always been regarded as the tragedy of the open source community. Sun's market value once exceeded $200 billion. At Sun's lowest ebb, $7.4 billion was bought by Oracle Bone Inscriptions. After Oracle Bone Inscriptions bought Sun, he cleaned out all the unruly management elites and excellent engineers, and then hired a pervert from HP to take over Sun's original hardware lifeline. Forward this article in memory of Sun, Opensolaris, Kenai, Scott and James.
James gosling, the founder of Java.
Ellison, Chairman and CEO of Oracle Bone Inscriptions Company, has been the target of media chase for three times in the past month. 12 August, Oracle Bone Inscriptions announced Google? Android mobile phone operating system infringes Java copyright and patent and sues Google; 17 In August, Oracle Bone Inscriptions announced that it would abandon the OpenSolaris project. On September 6th, Oracle Bone Inscriptions announced the appointment of Hurd, former chairman and CEO of HP, as co-president of Oracle Bone Inscriptions. These three seemingly unrelated events are actually famous. We should start with how the sun rises at sunset.
Success or failure is due to Oracle Bone Inscriptions.
Ellison, the company's co-founder, and McNealy, the chairman and CEO of Sun Company, were once called Silicon Valley Fighters, because they shared the same hobby-opposing Microsoft, and because they shared the same business-both regarded each other as their biggest customers and became business partners. However, when the Internet bubble burst, like-minded friends were brothers.
Sun started as a workstation, and later occupied the high-end server market with SPARC processors and Solaris operating system. The performance and reliability of SPARC and Solaris are well known in the industry, but they are also expensive. But at that time, money was not a problem in the enterprise market. At this time, Oracle's database products supplemented the Solaris platform.
After the internet bubble burst, users began to pay attention to the return on investment, and money became the biggest problem. Oracle Bone Inscriptions didn't have enough friends to protect his own interests.
In June 2002, Oracle announced the launch of Oracle9i RAC. It is this database that pushes the sun to the sunset. The database product can run on Red Hat Linux platform and x86 architecture. To make matters worse, Oracle9i RAC and Red Hat Linux are pre-installed in Dell's x86 architecture servers. Low-cost x86 architecture and Linux replaced SPARC and Solaris, and pre-installation greatly reduced the trouble for users. Ellison went further, migrating the whole operation of Oracle Bone Inscriptions to x86 platform, and declared that future products would be developed on x86 platform first, and then transplanted to SPARC platform. Oracle Bone Inscriptions's example is tantamount to telling users that everything Sun can do can be done on x86 platform, and it is cheaper.
Oracle Bone Inscriptions and users won, and Sun was the biggest loser, because there was no x86 server at that time.
Java brings Sun only fame.
Java, developed for smart home appliances, doesn't want to "intentionally plant flowers, unintentionally plant willows in the shade." It has no improvement in the home appliance market, but because of its cross-platform characteristics of "programming once and running everywhere", it has caught up with the rapid development opportunity of the Internet and shined brilliantly in the enterprise market.
Java is "flashy" to Sun. In addition to bringing fame, Java did not directly bring Sun a return equal to its reputation. This is not how selfless Sun is. In fact, Sun has already tried. In the late 1990s, with the rapid development of Java, Sun felt that the harvest season had arrived, and Sun Cheng established JavaSoft, a Java application department. Unexpectedly, Sun's practice of "being both an athlete and a referee" was strongly or even overreacted by Java application vendors. Although the Java community developed rapidly at that time, if Sun had a share in the application market, the future of Java would be uncertain. After careful consideration, Sun cancelled the JavaSoft department and developed the Java platform instead, earning a little money from the authorization of the enterprise.
Sun's main sources of income are Solaris and. Essentially, Sun is a hardware manufacturer. However, due to the fatal blow of Oracle9i RAC, Solaris and SPARC are also in jeopardy.
In 2006, Schwartz, who took over as CEO of McNealy, had to stabilize the user base of SPARC before developing it. The free strategy of "taste before buying" can undoubtedly attract customers. But for Sun, the server can't be given away, and Solaris can only be given away. This is incredible: desktop Windows still sells money, how can enterprise Solaris give it away for nothing?
Schwartz's idea is that open source, known as the strongest operating system in history, is enough to reassure customers of critical business applications about Solaris security, and Solaris and SPARC are the best optimized for each other. Therefore, users who like Solaris will also like SPARC, thus achieving the purpose of promoting SPARC. Therefore, Sun launched an open source project of Solaris, OpenSolaris, and promised that the open source code of OpenSolaris is the same as the Solaris code being developed.
By the end of 2006, Sun announced that Java would be open source. Obviously, Sun hopes that the best platform for running Java is Solaris, and the best hardware platform for Solaris is Solaris. As long as users have confidence in open source Java, they are potential customers of SPARC.
However, after Oracle Bone Inscriptions bought Sun for $7.4 billion last April, Schwartz's wishful thinking never rang again. After all, software vendors only know the value of software, and who has the final say.
Why did Oracle Bone Inscriptions sue Google?
Although Sun is no longer involved in the Java application market, enterprises still need to buy licenses from Sun to use Java, which is usually small money. Sun's biggest windfall was that in 2004, Microsoft settled its feud with Sun with $6543.8+$600 million in Java. The most stingy is Google, which uses Java for free in its mobile operating system Android.
Although Oracle Bone Inscriptions, who is located in the enterprise market, disdains mobile phones, he must take good care of Google, the leading brother who breaks away from convention. Who else will pay the bill? However, Oracle Bone Inscriptions should have deeper reasons for Gu Sue Ge, or it is directly related to the change of Oracle Bone Inscriptions's open source policy. In March of this year, Oracle shortened the license of OpenSolaris to 90 days, and must purchase the corresponding services after the expiration, and then cancelled the free delivery of OpenSolaris CD in April. /kloc-in August of 0/7, Oracle Bone Inscriptions said by email that he would concentrate on developing enterprise Solaris and would not update OpenSolaris in real time. On August 23rd, members of the OpenSolaris Management Association (OGB), which is responsible for the development and maintenance of OpenSolaris community, collectively resigned. This means OGB will return the control of OpenSolaris to Oracle Bone Inscriptions, which is exactly what Oracle Bone Inscriptions wants. According to the news from Oracle Bone Inscriptions website, John Fowle, global executive vice president in charge of hardware business, recently announced the product strategy and product roadmap of Oracle+Sun at a video conference. Fowle said that Oracle Bone Inscriptions will first focus on building the most open server for Oracle Bone Inscriptions applications, and has made a detailed five-year plan for SPARC. Oracle Bone Inscriptions will continue to support x86 rack servers and blades running Intel chips. Obviously, SPARC is back in favor. Oracle Bone Inscriptions English website is more direct: Oracle Bone Inscriptions provides the most complete, open and integrated commercial software and hardware system in the world, and Oracle Bone Inscriptions is the only supplier capable of providing complete technology stack. Each layer in the stack is integrated and works like a single system. In other words, Oracle Bone Inscriptions will focus on SPARC to provide customers with a one-stop complete solution. When everything goes well for Oracle Bone Inscriptions in Dont Ask For Help, there is naturally no need to use OpenSolaris and Java as signs and pretexts. It can even be said that regaining control of Java is more beneficial to Oracle Bone Inscriptions. When Oracle Bone Inscriptions talks about Google on Java, asking for money should be only a superficial phenomenon, and the deeper reason is to convey a voice similar to OpenSolaris. Google is neither a traditional enterprise-level software vendor nor pays licensing fees, so it naturally becomes a suitable object for Oracle to test the response of enterprises such as Jave community and even IBM before taking action against Java.
Is Hurd angry with Oracle Bone Inscriptions?
Although McNealy was like a roaring bull in his struggle with Microsoft, he was cruel to employees. After the Internet bubble burst, McNealy was repeatedly pressured by the capital market to lay off employees, but he basically refused, which became one of the reasons why McNealy was forced to resign.
Sun is a typical technology-driven company with a long product line, including processors, servers, operating systems, storage, Java and databases. Less than one-tenth of IBM employees. This requires the culture of the technical elite.
After Oracle Bone Inscriptions bought Sun, hardware marketing became a soft spot, and a cold-faced cost killer was badly needed.
In the summer of 2006, I interviewed HP Global Analyst Conference in Silicon Valley, which happened to be the first time that HP surpassed IBM to become the largest IT company in the world. Hurd talked most about the triangle of growth, cost and capital in his keynote speech, but the word "technology" doesn't seem to be in Hurd's oral dictionary. In other words, Hurd surpassed IBM in scale by management and market.
On September 6th, the former CEO of HP was "re-employed" in Oracle Bone Inscriptions only 1 month after his resignation, indicating that Ellison had high expectations for Hurd, a cold-blooded killer, and hoped that he would "reproduce yesterday" and let Oracle Bone Inscriptions surpass IBM.
If Ellison sets IBM as the target, then the current lawsuit against Hurd by HP's board of directors is exactly what Ellison wants: after the two companies are in trouble, Oracle Bone Inscriptions users on HP platform will choose Oracle Bone Inscriptions's software and hardware solutions, and HP has the reputation of being the first to tear their faces.
If HP only surpasses IBM in annual revenue, the tit-for-tat competition between Oracle Bone Inscriptions and IBM in the fields of server, storage, operating system, database and application software is still very technical.
Compared with having to compete with HP's board of directors, Hurd has the support of Ellison, who dominates Oracle Bone Inscriptions, and can go all out to deal with competitors. However, Hurd had to directly face the challenges within the enterprise. He must adapt to Oracle Bone Inscriptions's corporate culture and respect Sun's tradition. Even if Hurd adapts, Sun's technical elite may not be able to adapt. No, on April 2, 20 10, Gosling, the father of Java, left Oracle Bone Inscriptions. Then he joined Google on March 29th, 20 1 1.
Six years after the acquisition of Sun, Oracle Bone Inscriptions is stepping up its censorship of Java customers who violate its license on a large scale.
Larry Ellision's team interviewed more and more Oracle customers and partners, and they said they didn't follow the rules of Java.
Oracle Bone Inscriptions acquired Sun Microsystems on 20 10. According to informed sources, its license management service (LMS) is now collecting payment from various places.
At present, the database giant company has hired 20 people around the world to be responsible for the recovery and compensation of those enterprises that violate the Java license.
In this regard, the industry compliance expert group is constantly expanding its staff, recruiting more Java experts and expanding its budget to cope with and participate in more lawsuits from LMS (20 17). There are too many money and interests involved, and the amount involved in each customer may be tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands.
The Java version in the event is Java SE, and there are three payment methods, from $40 to $300 per user or $5,000 to $65,438+$05,000 per processor.
Register understands that a customer with 80,000 PCs in the retail industry received a notice from Oracle that it violated the Java license. Oracle also told another customer that it owed more than $654.38 million, but this debt can now be discounted by $30,000.
Experts suggest downloading Java SE carefully, and the downloaded Java SE should be reviewed and prepared before LMS call. These experts told the Register website that the number of customers seeking help from Java licenses is on the rise, and these customers have received the notice from LMS in the second half of 20 16.
"Oracle Bone Inscriptions has taken this issue as a problem," an expert who asked not to be named told the Reg website. Our sources show that the number of inquiries about this kind of information has been increasing in the past five months.
Craig Guarente, CEO and founder of Palisade Compliance, told us that the LMS of Oracle doesn't care whether you are a customer or a partner.
He told us: "Oracle Bone Inscriptions is targeting its partners, and these companies are helping Oracle Bone Inscriptions." Partners want to know, how can Oracle Bone Inscriptions treat them like this?
Guarente said: "Due to the continuous promotion of Oracle Bone Inscriptions, Java has brought us closer and closer to our customers."
The fundamental reason is that everyone's cognition of Java mistakes is that Java is free!
This misconception can be traced back to the era of Sun Microsystems. Under the leadership of Sun, Java is free, and so is Oracle! But Sun also charges license fees from manufacturers such as IBM and Blu-ray players. Although most users don't charge. This is because Sun uses Java to help it sell various systems.
Now Oracle Bone Inscriptions has decided to speed up the commercialization of Java.
Java SE is a comprehensive download, including Java SE Advanced Desktop launched by Oracle in February 2065438+04, and Java SE Advanced and Java SE Suite launched in May 20 1 1.
Java SE is free, yes, but Java SE Advanced Desktop, Advanced and Suite are not free. For example, you need to pay $300 and $66 for service support for each user; If calculated by processor, a single processor needs 15000 USD, and service support needs 3300 USD. Java SE includes free JDK and JRE, but advanced desktop, advanced suite and some extra functions are charged, such as Java Mission Control and Flight Recorder (also called JRockit Mission Control and JRockit Flight Recorder).
There is also the Microsoft Windows Installer Enterprise JRE installer for large-scale Java deployment.
Oracle Bone Inscriptions defined Java SE as free on the premise of "general computing"-the devices involved include desktop computers, notebooks, smartphones and tablets. However, as a professional embedded computer in intelligent system, it is not free in Oracle license. Later, Oracle Bone Inscriptions added some other devices, including mobile phones, handheld devices, network switches and Blu-ray players.
Sounds simple, doesn't it? However, customers are increasingly restricted by LMS on these devices. I hope there is no way to separate those Java SE sub-products that need to be paid from the free Java SE umbrella at present, and Oracle itself does not provide independent installation software.
So you can only be a hodgepodge user of Java SE Suite, even though you only want a part, and then pay according to the requirements of Oracle.
If you want to deploy Java SE on a large scale, you need the tool Microsoft Windows Installer Enterprise JRE Installer, which is not part of the free Java SE.
"People don't realize," Guarente said to Reg, "that Java is free because it is open source, so it can be used. This is not that the protocol of Java is unclear, but that people misunderstand it. "
Our compliance expert, who asked not to be named, added:
If you download Java, you get all the contents of Java. You need to make sure that only the parts you have the right to use are installed, and the useless content is deleted. Any function that needs to be paid for is for commercial use. The definition of "general purpose" in the agreement is very vague, which is also the reason for many disputes.
When you, as an organization, distribute some things containing Java to end users-and more and more companies also let customers get products and services by distributing applications, these are not "universal purposes", and now Oracle Bone Inscriptions wants to make money from it!
Why did Oracle Bone Inscriptions choose to wait for six years after acquiring Sun?
We think this is because the LMS of Oracle is studying all aspects of Java in detail and designing targeted audit methods.
LMS is now ready to shoot Java SE user 20 17!
"I expect that Oracle Bone Inscriptions will increase its investment in this field in 20 17," Guarente told Reg. "All the trends show that the LMS audit team in Oracle Bone Inscriptions is becoming more and more active and trying to get more income in this field. I don't think we can see a kind and gentle Oracle on 20 17. "
What should we do?
An expert who did not want to be named warned: "If you download Java, you will get all Java things. You need to ensure that only the components that you have the right to install are installed, and it is best to delete those components that you don't use. "
"If you are already using Java, please determine the specific components you are really using and how they are used. Please check these questions before Oracle Bone Inscriptions finds you. "
Despite repeated requests from the Register website, Oracle Bone Inscriptions has not commented on this article.