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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Vendor lock in is NOT a part of the Linux world. its part of the "proprietary" world which includes oracle. switch oracle with postgres or mysql or your vendor lock in problem disappears. so what ties you to redhat and novell is not linux but oracle
Ah, it must be nice to live in a world where OSS has all the software requirements of businesses met and legacy systems can be rewritten with a mere wave of the hand.
Back here where the sky is blue, the grass green and the sun yellow, however, Oracle is often a required piece of software. Hence, so is an Oracle certified platform.
so claiming that redhat is proprietary is LIE. clame that oracle is proprietary and it creates lock in with redhat it *might* be true but thats only true because others didnt take the effort to guarantee ABI and lifecyle and get a oracle certified platform other than novell and redhat
Regardless of the semantics, the *practical end result* (all that matters out in the real world) is that using Redhat as an alternative to Solaris (ie: because you need something Redhat has that other Linux variants don't) results in just as much lockin.