Hey Oracle, Why Not Ubuntu?

OSS_ilation writes "While much has been said about Novell or Red Hat as potential targets for Oracle this week, there are some in the Linux community who believe a different distro might deserve the attention of Larry Ellison. That distribution is Ubuntu, and analysts like Burton Group's Richard Monson-Haefel believed that it would be a better fit for Oracle, which is looking only for an OS and not for any of the baggage associated with Novell, like Netware. Ubuntu, with its huge community base and version 6.06 on the way, could be the perfect fit, he said."

Comments

Hey... NO!

[Tei]

Who in the correct mind wrote that ~1111

This is mad. Ubuntu is a desktop, a fine one. And Oracle is system software. If Oracle get Ubuntu, will fuck it ~~~111111

For the love of all that is sacred.

[miffo.swe]

Mark Shuttleworth has done a wonderful job in managing Ubuntu. I have a hard time imaging Oracle not stomping all over and making huge beginner mistakes onto the community. I love the Debian/Ubuntu combination that Mark and his fellow people have put together but i would switch away in a heartbeat if Mark was to be switched for some random PHB.