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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. Oh no! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Now that Oracle has added "Unbreakable" in front of the word "Linux"... Linux is finally going to become insecure :(

    Note to Linux developers: remember to add all your SVN commits as cron jobs, and forward date them all 2 years, or 3 years if they're critical security patches.

    1. Re:Oh no! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

      It appears that advertisers for software are lots dumber than advertisers for cars. Can't Oracle afford a decent slogan, one that folks won't laugh at? One that isn't so obviously bogus? I mean, Oracle is trying to sell to IT people, not Microsofties. IT folks know damned good and well that no software is unbreakable. Microsoft could get away with it, considering its user base, but not Oracle.

      Now, the car companies know how to lie - just tell the truth. For instance:

      Chevy - like a rock. (Damned thing won't start and the transmission is locked up again... damn!)

      Ford - Quality is job one. (They have no quality and their work is cut out for them)

      Pontiac - We Build Excitement! (The handling is crap and the brakes are worse)

      Oracle - Faster than a speeding bullet (well, electricity does travel at the speed of light)

  2. Luniz by Dogtanian · · Score: 2, Funny

    Linuzzz. Weren't they the rappers that had a hit with "I got 5 on it" in the mid-nineties? ;-P
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  3. Re:The Problem Is There's 500 Linux Distributions by NDPTAL85 · · Score: 2, Funny

    "We live in different worlds. Right now I see laptops running WinXP and Win2k. Vista might as well not exist. We are members of the Microsoft Developer's Network Academic Alliance, so we can download free-as-in-beer copies of WinXP and Vista. I've only ever seen one copy of Vista running on campus."

    Of course we live in different worlds. You live in the academic world and I live in the real one. :)

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