Larry hates Bill. Lots of smaller and start up shops now run Oracle on RHEL. He wants the big boys to do it to, but they don't because Larry thinks that RHEL is not an "enterprise OS". So these shops are instead running on Winndows which Larry hates.
So Larry makes it an "enterprise OS" but doing one thing that RedHat does not: back porting bug fixes.
The other thing he does is remove the fear of SCO suing whoever uses HIS linux distro - he holds them harmless and shoulders all liability on their behalf. All other users of other distros have to shoulder that burden themselves.
Larry won't kill RH. All the work they do benefits him. Larry saw RHEL as the linux leader for Oracle installs and that is why he picked them. He wants them to carry on, and develop and distribute as they have been, but the money they make is in support. He'll take every support dollar he can get. He for sure won't get them all (many only on prinicple), so RH will survive, but all the big boys that want to run RH, but couldn't because of one of those two issues, now can.
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Do you want to run a distro that slaps a picture of a red hat everywhere or would you rather see a picture of a penguin wearing armor?
Is this the best that we can do folks?
Screw the investments in kernel functionality and performance... three servings of bogo mips for an icon that I can be proud of!
Larry hates Bill. Lots of smaller and start up shops now run Oracle on RHEL. He wants the big boys to do it to, but they don't because Larry thinks that RHEL is not an "enterprise OS". So these shops are instead running on Winndows which Larry hates. So Larry makes it an "enterprise OS" but doing one thing that RedHat does not: back porting bug fixes. The other thing he does is remove the fear of SCO suing whoever uses HIS linux distro - he holds them harmless and shoulders all liability on their behalf. All other users of other distros have to shoulder that burden themselves. Larry won't kill RH. All the work they do benefits him. Larry saw RHEL as the linux leader for Oracle installs and that is why he picked them. He wants them to carry on, and develop and distribute as they have been, but the money they make is in support. He'll take every support dollar he can get. He for sure won't get them all (many only on prinicple), so RH will survive, but all the big boys that want to run RH, but couldn't because of one of those two issues, now can.