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Mass Speculation Suggests Oracle May Kill OpenSolaris
CWmike writes to point out that Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols is one of many people questioning where Oracle may land once the acquisition of Sun is complete. One concern that I have heard many people express is that there may be a good chance of OpenSolaris getting the axe for not fitting in with the overall corporate vision. "People outside of IT seldom think of Oracle as a Linux company, but it is. Not only does Oracle encourage its customers to use its own house-brand clone of RHEL (Red Hat Enterprise Linux), Oracle Unbreakable Linux, Oracle has long used Linux internally both on its servers and on some of its desktops. So, what does a Linux company like Oracle wants to do with its newly purchased Sun's open-source operating system, OpenSolaris? The answer appears to be: 'Nothing.' Sun, Oracle and third-party sources are telling me that OpenSolaris developers are afraid that they'll be either moved over to working on Linux or let go once the Sun/Oracle merger is completed."
No - linux is not the "biggest"
If you take the mass of all the things that call themselves "Linux" - then yes.
Linux is a kernel. But RedHat's efforts are different than Debians, which is a different set of efforts than Canonical, which is .....
And Apache, while running on GNU/Linux forks is not Linux. Nor is OpenOffice. Or .....
Man, them trying to cut Redhat off at the knees is so short sighted because
A) their support organization sucks (maybe this will get better if they use the Sun side of the house to answer non-DB questions)
B) Redhat employs a bunch of people that work on linux without costing Oracle a dime.
There are 4 boxes to use in the defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, ammo. Use in that order. Starting now.
Obvious troll is obvious. Well, except to all you n00bs who modded him "interesting."
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