Oracle thinks its own application server is faster and more secure than that of JBoss, but the JBoss software is "just fine" for some applications, Ellison said. And because many application servers are based on the same Java standards, including those from IBM and BEA, "that puts us into direct competition with open source," Ellison said.
"So our view is that rather than fight this trend, we've architected our middleware so we can unplug our Java container and use JBoss. ... We can mix and match our middleware stack with open-source components, so that customers get to choose what Java container they want to run," he said.
Oracle can still sell other products around the application server, he said, including its identity management and business process management products.
Offering open-source software fits with another change under way at Oracle: encouraging more customers to pay on an "all you can eat," subscription basis, and deemphasizing new license fees, which have declined over the years as the database market matured.
"More and more we're trying to turn our largest customers into 'all you can eat' customers" that can use unlimited database software for a fixed fee each year, Ellison said. "That's very different from Oracle 10 years ago."
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