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Oracle to Compete With Red Hat for Linux Support

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the and-the-consumer-wins dept.

PCM2 writes "It's not Oracle Linux, but Larry Ellison has announced that Oracle will be providing full enterprise support for Linux. This means not just phone calls but also patches, security fixes, and backports, in addition to indemnification from lawsuits like SCO's. This puts Oracle in direct competition with its erstwhile partner, Red Hat, whose entire business is based on providing similar support for its Linux distro and related software."

4 of 221 comments (clear)

  1. huh? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Wht wht?

  2. Re:first step towards buying red hat? by the+eric+conspiracy · · Score: 2, Funny

    Oracle still wants JBoss so it needs to buy Red Hat??

  3. Re:I'm confused... by smittyoneeach · · Score: 2, Funny
    Larry, being partial to bowlers, adopts a new logo.
    http://sa73be.over-blog.com/photo-66314-33---pink- floyd-wish-you-were-here-b_jpg.html
    "The distro's just fantastic, that is really what I thinks, oh, by the way: Vista stinks..."
    --
    Get thee glass eyes, and, like a scurvy politician, seem to see things thou dost not.--King Lear
  4. A Dream Answered by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    > Oracle to Compete Wth Red Hat for Linux Support

    Finally! Now you too can own a $30,000 version of Linux.

    * In keeping with the Oracle tradition of no GUIs, no KDE and GNOME will not be included. Larry has his fingers crossed someone else will write one.
    * In the Oracle tradition of installers written in Java, you too can have a relaxed day of installation watching those damned applet windows keep redrawing themselves... very slowly.