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> As a service professional, I learnt to a) listen to the customer's wishes
> and b) not arguing against them of, and c) to talk to development if my
> product doesn't fulfil them. This is proven to work.

Proven to be a disaster for OS's. "Service professionals" should not design
software.
A whole lot of what makes Linux so good is Linus saying "no". And a whole
lot of what makes open software work is development being able to tell
marketing to write the code themselves if they are so technically saavy.



> Which is exactly what Oracle et al. are not going to do - for obvious
> reasons. This is not an "issue" but a showstopper. But you were kidding
> anyway, weren't you?

If the system works well and people use it, Oracle or someone will have
good databases on it.



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