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Another view on Oracle LinuxPosted by Dana Blankenhorn in Linux and Open Source on Nov 1, 2006 11:39 AM
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Oracle's new Linux is the best thing that ever happened to the open source applications market. Especially in the enterprise space.And, no, they're not going to fork it. Instead they're...[Read the rest]

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