Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 26th Oct 2006 17:10 UTC, submitted by M-Saunders
"Yesterday Oracle announced the release of their own version of Red Hat Enterprise Linux, simply called Enterprise Linux or 'Unbreakable Linux'. In a remarkably similar move to such projects as CentOS, Oracle have decided to remove all Red Hat specific trademarks and brand it as their own (all quite legit, of course). They will be supplying bugfixes for this new version, and will also be synchronising it with future releases of Red Hat Enterprise Linux. We decided to take a peek at what Oracle had come up with. Read on for a first-look, and the Linux Format team's opinions." In the meantime, Mark Shuttleworth said a partnership with Oracle is no longer a matter of if, but when.
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2005-11-13
Oracle is acting against the general goodwill of open source.
Oracle is operating within the licensing rights granted in the GPL.
Last thing we want is IBM, Sun, HP and everyone else to have their version of Linux.
Who exactly is *we*?
So what if IBM, HP and everyone else under the sun releases a linux distro?
If the support is good and the price(s) are right then more power to them!