Beware Of Oracles In Old Clothing
May 12, 2014
InfoWorld reports there is going to be a halt in progress for Oracle in the article, “Beware Of NoSQL Standards In Oracle’s Clothing.” Industry standards help regulate and control information technology. They can even help push IT forward, but according to some anonymous sources Oracle is trying to make NoSQL startups sign up for a standards body in order to slow down change.
Just the very idea of this happening is sickening for the open source community:
“In reality, big vendors use standards to halt their larger customers from adopting new technology or create weird new-old hybrids to keep the old ways alive. There are many companies that, once they see a standardization effort, will wait for the BigCo-supported standard to be adopted before they upgrade their tech stack. Since such adoption tends to be slow anyhow, this is an effective delaying tactic. Meanwhile, the big vendor works to control the standards body.”
Oracle wants to slow down progress, because it eats into their profit margin. Oracles wants the future come at a pace it chooses, where they will control the market, get patented technology under FRAND terms, and buy up NoSQL vendors.
Standardization is a good thing, but Oracle needs to realize that relational databases are too small to handle the amount of big data in systems. It’s a call to arms for the open source community to fight relying on outdated technology. Echoes of keeping video rental stores over streaming services are in this.
Whitney Grace, May 12, 2014
Sponsored by ArnoldIT.com, developer of Augmentext
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