Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 26th Oct 2006 17:10 UTC, submitted by M-Saunders
"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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2006-04-21
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.
Any company that makes a serious effort at selling a FOSS product is going to be "an open source advocate"; if it doesn't, their FOSS efforts will be ignored. I'm all for truth in advertising, but no company is going to sell a FOSS product and be anti-FOSS; that'd be like saying "Don't buy this, it's crap; in fact don't buy from us, because we sell crap". No company is or should be doing that.
EDIT: Well, ok, apart from SCO. But we're not talking about pathological cases, here. Normally the inmates don't run the asylum.
Edited 2006-10-26 21:49