Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Wed 24th Nov 2004 20:48 UTC
We had the pleasure of having a quick chat with Sun's COO, Jonathan Schwartz, yesterday. We talked about a variety of things, including Java, Solaris, Red Hat and good ol' Unix.
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"Jonathan believes that Red Hat's ways in the business are not fully honest. He believes that Red Hat locks Enterprise customers in, just like Microsoft does, by steadily moving away from the LSB, by patching and forking code (including using a very non-standard Linux kernel) and so applications get certified or only work in the Red Hat codebase and no other Linux distro. Such an example is Oracle, where they do not support any Linux distro other than Red Hat-based ones. Jonathan believes that Red Hat, by differentiating the code so much, has created its own incompatible platform, and is therefore virtually pushing customers to continue use Red Hat instead of Debian or Gentoo or other."
Sorry Jonathan? Do you know that the sources for all those redhat patches are available for download in ftp.redhat.com? Gentoo and Debian are free to patch their kernel with redhat patches and run Oracle on it. In fact if they aren't doing it it's because they don't have the man power to do it - which is the WHOLE point of buying support from Redhat. Heck, in fact Redhat competitors - ie: Suse - are _using_ redhat patches - and redhat is using Suse patches, which is the WHOLE point of having a opensource OS. Hi? Life somewhere inside Sun? How is Solaris going to opensource Solaris if they don't know what is the real meaning of Open Source?