Oracle to Offer RedHat Support?

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Sunday July 9, 2006 @10:22AM from the declarations-of-war dept.

rs232 writes to tell us ITP is reporting that Oracle's Larry Ellison recently called Red Hat's ability to honor their support contracts effectively into question. Taking that claim one step further, Ellison claims that Oracle will soon start offering support for Red Hat Linux users. From the article: "The reason for this move, which Oracle executives later declined to provide any real detail on, is that Red Hat isn't doing a good enough job of providing that support itself, Ellison said. 'Red Hat is too small and does not do a very good job of supporting them [customers],' he said."

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I wonder... Orcale distro on the way? by Arimus · 2006-07-09 10:39 · Score: 5, Insightful

Given the effort required to be able to offer support on a third party distro I wonder if over time Oracle will come to the conclusion they can provide their own distro as easily as carry out support for distro over which they have no/limited control.

Either that or will Oracle end up buying RH?

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