Larry Ellison’s Secret Plan For Open Source

Paul Kedrosky has the scoop on Larry Ellison’s supposed plan to do an end-run around Microsoft and corner the the open source enterprise application market. From JBoss to Zend, to Spikesource. Business Week has an update. Apparently Larry has earmarked about $600 million for three deals. Funny this buying binge – and the firing binge on the other side.