Oracle Linux

Another view on Oracle LinuxPosted by Dana Blankenhorn in Linux and Open Source on Nov 1, 2006 11:39 AM Subscribe Alerts: 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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It's IBM's Move: More musings on the Oracle Unbreakable Linux flap: If Oracle is going after the model, and not the company, then IBM -- and again, oddly, the other global systems integrators -- will need to come to open source's... [Read the rest]; Posted by Dana Gardner in BriefingsDirect on: Oct 31, 2006 7:30 AM
Red Hat's Szulik responds to Oracle's frontal assault: Red Hat CEO Matthew Szulik responded to Oracle's attack on its business, slashing supports costs for Red Hat Linux by half, by saying that his company will not cut prices.... [Read the rest]; Posted by Dan Farber in Between the Lines on: Oct 30, 2006 3:56 AM
Red Hat: Unfakeable Linux: Red Hat counterpunches with a hard hitting rebutal of Oracle's recent "Unbreakable Linux" announcement. It's called "Unfakeable Linux", and here are some of the highlights... [Read the rest]; Posted by Ed Burnette in Dev Connection on: Oct 26, 2006 8:27 PM
Oracle's war of stack against stack: Open source politics isn't like Republicans vs. Democrats. It's more like the European Parliament. You can't go in there guns blazing. You can't push your way forward. You can't win... [Read the rest]; Posted by Dana Blankenhorn in Linux and Open Source on: Oct 26, 2006 7:51 AM
Oracle with Linux is doing the inevitable -- a business model mash-up: This is not, by the way, an assault on Linux. It's an assault on the providers of Linux support tied to a particular distribution. Linux should be just fine. And... [Read the rest]; Posted by Dana Gardner in BriefingsDirect on: Oct 26, 2006 7:18 AM
Ellison's Red Hat hijacking maneuver: I was talking to Goldman Sachs sage Rich Sherlund about Oracle's move to basically hijack Red Hat's Linux by rolling its own binary distro based on Red Hat and starting... [Read the rest]; Posted by Dan Farber in Between the Lines on: Oct 25, 2006 8:05 PM
Undermining the Support and Maintenance Market: Red Hat Today, Everyone Else Tomorrow?: Oracle's announcement that it will basically cut the legs out of Red Hat by offering a lower-cost support package sounded familar to anyone who's followed the likes of TomorrowNow, Rimini... [Read the rest]; Posted by Josh Greenbaum in Enterprise Anti-matter on: Oct 25, 2006 2:59 PM
Ellison offers full support service for Red Hat Linux at half the price: After a ceremonial closing bell of NASDAQ by Oracle executives, fed live to NYC, Oracle CEO Larry Ellison took the stage and evangelized for Oracle's scale out grid computing strategy.... [Read the rest]; Posted by Dan Farber in Between the Lines on: Oct 25, 2006 1:25 PM
T'ubuntu or not t'ubuntu: Ellisonix (or should that be Oraclix) to be based on Ubuntu?: Just before the weekend, Network World's Jennifer Mears connected a bunch of dots that make it seem like it isn't a question of if, but rather, just when Oracle announces... [Read the rest]; Posted by David Berlind in Between the Lines on: Oct 24, 2006 6:42 AM