"No one saw this coming. People talked about Oracle making its own Linux, or buying a Linux company (Ubuntu?). But, the news that Oracle is erasing Red Hat's trademarks from Unbreakable Linux and supporting it for less than Red Hat is a bolt from the blue. Or, perhaps, I should say that Oracle is firing a shot at the heart of Red Hat, and commercial Linux? This really, really ticks me off." Apparently, Oracle announced that they will provide full enterprise support for Linux and so it competes with RH.
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Member since:2006-03-12
Funny, a better example is:
Red Hat Linux: $ 0/year
PostgreSQL: $ 0/year
Oracle: $0 for 30 days, must be licensed after by year
Red Hat cost for best Red Hat version and support: $2499/year
The best support possible for PostgreSQL: $22 500/year
Best support possible for Oracle Enterprise Edition, via Processor Perpetual licence: $44 888, one time fee
But those are just real prices, crazy, I know.
Member since:2005-07-14
a) you don't get RHEL for free (though you can get CentOS / WhiteBox for free)
b) With PostgreSQL for $O, you won't get a phone number which you can call and talk about your screwed-up database
c) There are scenarios, where "big" DBs like Oracle and DB/2 are the only sensible solutions. I don't think MySQL or PostgreSQL would handle multi-GB tablespaces stored in multiple datafiles... Sometimes it's not "features", it's "how big can my DB be and still run and still be manageable".
And sometimes it's about having someone to call/blame when things break. In the end, it's a free market - pay if it's worth to you, don't pay if it's not worth.
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2005-07-10
They will buy it if it comes bundled with the database. Take a look at this example (the prices are made up):
Red Hat Linux License 3000.00
Oracle Database License 5000.00
Oracle Linux License (bundled) 1000.00
Oracle Database License 5000.00
They just saved 2000.00 by getting the bundled version and that is enough for most companies to forget about Red Hat.