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IBM Refuses To Certify Oracle Linux

Posted by kdawson on from the doesn't-look-red-to-me dept.

Andrew writes "IBM has thrown a spanner in the Oracle Linux works by refusing to certify that IBM's software portfolio will run and be supported on Oracle Unbreakable Linux. If IBM applications turn out to be incompatible with Oracle Linux, then it will be up to Oracle to resolve any issues. This conservative stance of IBM's is unlikely to help Oracle sell Linux subscriptions to businesses that use any of IBM's large software portfolio."

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  1. Re:what do you espected from a illegal hacker OS by rubycodez · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    there's another rogue system called Windoze, this college punk Billy-Boy BungGate wanted to start a software business, but after struggling for years to write a system to manage the resources of a computer he was only able to produce a buggy deficient BASIC interpreter on paper tape which could only run on an deficient Altair system no one wanted to buy. Ashamed of himself and his puny intellect, he then stole a hacked-up program loader QDOS and conned IBM execs into thinking it was an actual operating system. By the time people with actual technical expertise discovered the fraud, it was too late, DOS had already hit the shelves and bought by people falsely believing they were purchasing an actual operating system. To this day the glorified program loader wrapped in layers of cruft known as Windoze continues to give evidence of its unstable core as it "blue screens" in datacenters and businesses around the world. This has effectively held back the state of computer science, software engineering and computation by at least 20 years, but legions of computer users are none the wiser.