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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. Re:Not another distribution. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

    I bet you liked having boot disks to play all those DOS games, too. (Yes, I've seen your nick and I don't believe you limited your game playing to Myst, Bolo, Marathon, and Spectre.)

    You run Oracle on Ubuntu, which is basically the replacement on Debian. You run everything on Ubuntu and it runs better than a commercial Linux. If everyone ran Ubuntu the world would be so much better. Imagine one central repository where everything could be collected, supported, and distributed. It'd be... just as perfectly-functional as Mac OS X, and Free as well!

  2. Larry: just retire by penguin-collective · · Score: 0, Troll

    Oracle was a one-time deal--a combination of excellent timing for bringing out an RDBMS, good business skills, and a lot of luck. I don't think Ellison has it in him to repeat the success. And if he did, he wouldn't be futzing around buying FOSS operating systems, he'd come up with a new idea and found a new company.