On 01/10/2013, at 6:10 AM, Craig Sanders <cas@taz.net.au> wrote:
my suspicion is that oracle execs have no idea how to monetise either zfs or btrfs or use them as leverage to control linux, so don't see either as a priority and don't have a clue what to do with either of them.
Or, perhaps Oracle execs don't wish to monetise either or use them to leverage Linux and would rather just pay for the work to be done without exerting what others see as excessive control?
oracle geeks are probably different, but geeks don't make important decisions in corporates like oracle. suits do.
Actually, the Senior Vice-President of Linux Engineering at Oracle is a massive geek. He hacks on the kernel in his spare time (under a pseudonym) and has code in almost every product he manages. He's also 2-down from Larry and reports directly to our Chief Corporate Architect. So, we don't have a suit in charge of Oracle Linux, we have a geek. Hence, we have no desire to monetise our contributions. Hell, we're the only enterprise Linux that gives away the ISO, the updates, the errata, the bug fixes and the feature development for free. Say what you will about Oracle as a whole (and I've heard most of it all), but the Oracle Linux/VM product teams and associated upstream mainline developers are not typical of the rest of the organisation at all. Cheers, Avi