Linked by Thom Holwerda on Sun 29th Oct 2006 17:41 UTC, submitted by poohgee
"Oracle's offer of free support for Red Hat Linux was designed to inflict maximum pain on Red Hat. So it did. One day after the announcement, Red Hat shares lost 24 percent of their value. After watching his stock take a tumble, Red Hat's CEO Matthew Szulik is in a bind. He has just absorbed the equivalent of a cyber-kick in the groin from a bigger, badder bully."
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RE: Oracle has alot of problems of its own
by John.Gustafsson on Sun 29th Oct 2006 21:25
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1. RH should put all its effort into getting a replacement Oracle´s DB solution. That if anything would scare Oracle and drive down prices. Screw Linux, Oracle doesn´t care for that. Hit ´em where it hurts.
2. Build it new, built it on an existing open source solution, built it somehow, but build it fast.
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1. Oracle support of its database is too expensive. Plus when they have problems their answer is to send consulants (that you pay for at more than $250 an hour) to write patches to fix their bugs while falsely explaining it is customization to suit your needs. Just ask Ford Motor Company (7 years and $4B of development work on a program that never worked as advertised, any wonder they are in trouble?) or the US Army among others.
2. Currently Oracle is selling some programs that they know are not working as advertised, in the hope of having the customers pay for much of the development work.
3. If Oracle's idea of free support matches that current product support, "free support" will be very expensive.