Open-Source Community Preaches Coexistence

The Open Source community is offering a branch of peace to those who would wish it to be banished from the face of the Earth. As nice of a thought as this may be, to me it seems a little naive. Then again, maybe I am wrong.

Open-source and commercial applications will coexist in peace, Marten Mickos, chief executive at MySQL, said in a keynote presentation at LinuxWorld in Boston last week, adding that open source Get the total cost of ownership facts on Microsoft(R) Windows(R) and Linux. Latest News about open source will help the IT industry to move more quickly into new markets.

“There is so much that has not yet been created in areas of medicine, research, entertainment and media,” said Mickos.

“In order to get there we must simplify what we’ve built so far.”

Although some in the industry pitch the company against Oracle (Nasdaq: ORCL) Latest News about Oracle and IBM’s (NYSE: IBM) Meet the server enhanced for Linux®: the new IBM eServer™ OpenPower™ system. Latest News about IBM DB2, Mickos has always avoided that comparison.

The company instead targets new markets.

Mickos called on the IT industry to adopt open standards instead of picking a fight between open source and proprietary applications.

“We must open up. We must create building blocks so that we can move to the next level, he said, adding that failure to make this transition risked creating problems like the Y2K bug.