Here at OpenWorld Oracle hosted a round table on its open source strategy earlier today. Here’s what happened as it happened, including Oracle?s engagement with open source communities and contributions to Linux and open source middleware.
NB All comments are paraphrased unless direct quote marks are used.

The players:
Ken Jacobs, VP of product strategy, server technologies division.
Omar Tazi, chief open source evangelist
Mike Olson, VP embedded technology, former Sleepycat CEO
Ed Screven, chief corporate architect
(Moderating) Monica Kumar, senior director product marketing, Linux and open source
Wim Coekaerts, VP of Linux engineering, corporate architecture

MK: How does Oracle view open source?

ES: Oracle consumes open source technology. It doesn’t look at it as something that’s good or bad or contradictory to its business model, it’s something …