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Oracle and Red Hat E-Commerce Partnership

Posted by Roblimo on from the packaged-Linux-solutions-even-bosses-can-love dept.

Anonymous Coward writes "There's a press release out that says Red Hat and Oracle are teaming up to take on e-commerce. They have outlined bold initiatives to add support for IA64, a journaled filesystem and high avaliability. Even more they say it will include Motif, but they still say all additions will fit with the GPL." It's basically Oracle 8i teamed with an "optimized" version of Red Hat. Sounds nice. This joint product could have major impact on the e-commerce software marketplace if it works as promised. Claimed shipping date is mid-December.

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  1. Re:Good! by JordanH · · Score: 4
    I saw a Comment on Slashdot awhile back that I thought was interesting. The poster said that Oracle was going to drop all versions of UNIX except Solaris and Linux next year, and then maybe Solaris after that.

    I think Ellison has always chaffed at being pulled in different directions by the OS vendors. Witness the "Raw Iron" (is that what it was called?) initiative last year. Whatever happened to the idea of Oracle servers with "no OS"? I couldn't find any news that was newer than a year old when I looked a few months back.

    The Unix vendors currently pay a lot to make sure that the latest Oracle is available on their platform in a timely fashion. As the Linux market grows, Oracle will be able to extract more and more from the Unix vendors to ensure support.

    If this scenario plays out, then IBM decide to drop it and push DB2 and we might see some of the Unix vendors ban together in support of mSQL/mySQL/Postgres (and/or Sybase/Informix?) in a defensive move.

    It would be interesting.