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Oracle and Red Hat begin battle for the Enterprise

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the the-heat-is-on dept.

Salvance writes "Yahoo News (via ComputerWire) is reporting that Oracle and Red Hat are turning up the heat in the battle over Oracle's new enterprise Linux offering. While Oracle claims they'll be able to offer their 'Unbreakable' version of Red Hat's Linux offering for half the price, Red Hat asserts that all the important security and hardware certifications would be invalidated on Oracle's offering.

At this point, the only thing that's certain is that Red Hat needs to figure out how to keep their large Oracle Enterprise clients on board or risk becoming a takeover target (undoubtably, with Oracle leading the list of potentially bidders)."

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  1. Was I the only one who thought... by Alicat1194 · · Score: 1, Funny

    Man, Cpt Kirk's not going to like that!

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    You can learn a lot about a person if you just take the time to inject them with sodium pentathol
    1. Re:Was I the only one who thought... by Chelloveck · · Score: 3, Funny
      Awww gee... Everyone knows that the Enterpise computers run Vista.. ;-)

      Nah, MacOS. Don't you remember Star Trek IV: Save The Whales?

      "A keyboard. How... quaint."

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      Chelloveck
      I give up on debugging. From now on, SIGSEGV is a feature.
    2. Re:Was I the only one who thought... by risk+one · · Score: 2, Funny
      Awww gee... Everyone knows that the Enterpise computers run Vista.. ;-)
      Yes, I believe RC4 had just come out.
  2. Re:Prepare Yourselves Now by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Just imagine installing Linux using Oracle Universal Installer. Actually, don't do that.