"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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Member since: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!
Member since:2005-07-06
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!
Thats quite a short and narrow view. Redhat has proven to be an OSS advocate and has put a lot of their own resources into developing the 'Linux platform'. Oracle on the other hand may just take the money, which will likely be a net loss to Redhat, and not use it to develop the 'linux platform' in needed areas. Therefore 'ceteris paribus' the 'Linux platform' will have fewer resources developing it than if the money had gone to Redhat.
But there are a lot of factors and how it all ends up I don't pretend to know.
Member since:2006-05-14
What a bunch of utter nonsense . . . .
Oracle is acting against the general goodwill of open source.
And what goodwill are they against?
They have way too much money to be doing this.
How does money factor into this?
I propose that any techhead out there considering a database for Linux only consider AIX, Sybase or PostgreSQL.
Good luck with that "AIX" database?!?
Last thing we want is IBM, Sun, HP and everyone else to have their version of Linux.
So what if they do, as long as they play by the GPL. Competition is good isn't it?
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Oracle is acting against the general goodwill of open source. They have way too much money to be doing this. I propose that any techhead out there considering a database for Linux only consider AIX, Sybase or PostgreSQL. Skip Oracle. A weak RedHat makes for a weak Linux. Last thing we want is IBM, Sun, HP and everyone else to have their version of Linux.