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They were, or maybe still are, Red Hat partner.

I think that their Linux users are the ones who run their
database server. They just need a platform to run it, but database server remains the major product. Since the Linux is under convenient license they just incorporated it in their product line. The advantage is that they can offer a single point of support for the whole stack. Oracle claims that they have lowered the overall cost and price.

I don't think that Oracle did anything wrong. Linux is meant for such things, and licenses encourage users to do that. As someone said, Linux isn't proprietary.

Why would they create heir own distro, if Red Hat is good enough for them ? It would be a wasted effort, and, in the end, they would use the code written by other people, just like Red Hat itself.

THe both sides gained because they made initial effort to make database server and RHEL work together smoothly.

If Red Hat don't like it, they can develop some proprietary administration tool and make it part of their distro, exclusively. Or they can take advantage of the situation, and arrange with Oracle to include some of their tools that are available without charge, like JDeveloper.

I think that the whole thing is blown out of proportions by IT journalists. It is not the first, and unfortunately not the last time. IT journalism is still one of the worst aspects of IT.