Comments on: Oracle Have A Half Open Kimono http://halfcooked.com/blog/2006/09/05/oracle-have-a-half-open-kimono/ Wherein I write some stuff that you may like to read. Or not, its up to you really. Fri, 11 Nov 2011 18:30:53 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Catherine Devlin http://halfcooked.com/blog/2006/09/05/oracle-have-a-half-open-kimono/comment-page-1/#comment-604 Catherine Devlin Wed, 06 Sep 2006 15:05:59 +0000 http://halfcooked.com/blog/2006/09/05/oracle-have-a-half-open-kimono/#comment-604 Very well said. I think it might be part of the knee-jerk "let's demand a logon and password for *everything* - don't ask what purpose it serves" custom that infects so many websites. (Well, I guess the purpose is usually to get your email address to mail ads to, but is that really worth putting a barrier in front of the information?) It's funny, because I know that Oracle wants to evangelize. They asked me specifically to write an article to appeal to the un-Oraclized open-source community. Oh, well; no organization that big makes coherent decisions. Very well said. I think it might be part of the knee-jerk “let’s demand a logon and password for *everything* – don’t ask what purpose it serves” custom that infects so many websites. (Well, I guess the purpose is usually to get your email address to mail ads to, but is that really worth putting a barrier in front of the information?)

It’s funny, because I know that Oracle wants to evangelize. They asked me specifically to write an article to appeal to the un-Oraclized open-source community. Oh, well; no organization that big makes coherent decisions.

]]> By: Alan Green http://halfcooked.com/blog/2006/09/05/oracle-have-a-half-open-kimono/comment-page-1/#comment-598 Alan Green Tue, 05 Sep 2006 09:52:05 +0000 http://halfcooked.com/blog/2006/09/05/oracle-have-a-half-open-kimono/#comment-598 Yep. Just tried it and oracle.com sucks. On the plus side, it's not as balkanised as IBM's website. Yep. Just tried it and oracle.com sucks. On the plus side, it’s not as balkanised as IBM’s website.

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