{"id":1576,"date":"2003-06-22T14:25:42","date_gmt":"2003-06-22T21:25:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mossback.org\/archives\/2003\/06\/wild-man-of-silicon-valley\/"},"modified":"2003-06-22T14:25:42","modified_gmt":"2003-06-22T21:25:42","slug":"wild-man-of-silicon-valley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/2003\/06\/22\/wild-man-of-silicon-valley\/","title":{"rendered":"Wild Man of Silicon Valley"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\tOpen source is fun, but real software costs money and <a title=\"Ellison's Style May Be a Factor in Tech Industry Consolidation\" href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/business\/printedition\/la-fi-ellison22jun22,1,1185756.story?coll=la-headlines-pe-business\">Larry Ellison<\/a> wants to keep it that way:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The database software giant&#8217;s $6.3-billion offer for PeopleSoft has intensified a debate about Ellison&#8217;s larger vision, which is that the software industry is embarking on a massive consolidation that would leave it in the hands of a few huge companies. He wants to make sure Oracle is one of them.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>But&#8230;Ellison is counting on Linux to bring Microsoft down, and if that could happen, couldn&#8217;t MySQL bring Oracle down? <\/p>\n<p>Just speculating.\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Open source is fun, but real software costs money and Larry Ellison wants to keep it that way: The database software giant&#8217;s $6.3-billion offer for PeopleSoft has intensified a debate about Ellison&#8217;s larger vision, which is that the software industry is embarking on a massive consolidation that would leave it in the hands of a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/2003\/06\/22\/wild-man-of-silicon-valley\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Wild Man of Silicon Valley&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1576","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comp"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbifyw-pq","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1576","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1576"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1576\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1576"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1576"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}