Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 26th Oct 2006 17:10 UTC, submitted by M-Saunders
Databases "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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RE[2]: Boycott Oracle
by ctl_alt_del on Thu 26th Oct 2006 18:52 UTC in reply to "Boycott Oracle"
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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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