[rodgerd]

Well, Red Hat have demonstrated you can make a lot of money by open sourcing things (including buying proprietary software like ManageIQ and oVirt and open sourcing it). Given that EDB has ex-RHAT folks involved in setting it up, I imagine they're trying to replay the model.

[fleetside72]

I don't see how Red Hat has open sourced anything, the direction they are taking things is proprietary, not open.

[hendzen]

RedHat Q4 FY2016 profit: $68M

Oracle Q4 FY2016 profit: $2B

[awj]

You do realize you're comparing an amalgamation of software companies to a Linux distribution vendor, right? Oracle hasn't just been a database company for ... probably decades.

[bsg75]

Apples : Citrus

[zzzzzzzza]

will oracle be around in 10-20 years? will red hat? which will experience growth?

[temp246810]

All things being equal it would take red hat ~30 quarters to make 2bn dollars, or roughly 7 years.

7 years to make what Oracle makes in a quarter.

I don't really have a dog in this fight but just FYI I think you missed ops point.

[john61]

RedHat contributes to the common good, Oracle for a few millionaires. Therefore they create more value.

[hendzen]

Does developing MySQL and Java somehow not contribute to the common good?

[reitanqild]

FWIW my feeling is that Oracle has made a net negative contribution to the Java ecosystem.

[pgaddict]

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/12/16/oracle_targets_java_...

[zzzzzzzza]

I thought we didn't care about cash flows when valuing tech companies, just growth prospects ;)