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Oracle Looks At Buying Novell

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the consolidation-to-continue dept.

Several readers wrote to note Larry Ellison's comments about launching an Oracle Linux Distro (great! yet another!) and that Oracle has/is also looking at purchasing Novell. The great shake-out continues.

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  1. ;mod 0p by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    to underscore bad for *BSD. As if I remain parties). at THE of open-source. charnelD house. are tied up in Performing.' Even are about 7000/5

  2. Re:Not another distribution. by spiritraveller · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Gentoo and Ubuntu ought to be enough for anyone. That's it. No more corporate Linuxes.

    Ubuntu, like RedHat, is maintained by a for-profit corporation whose goal is to make money for its shareholders.

    SHOCKERS!