I don't think Ubuntu is a good choice for Oracle. It's desktop centric and there's not much work on the server side. Redhat would be the best choice as a server distro. Oracle has already done much work to provide RH compatible packages. But you don't buy enemies. Novell would be a good choice also, not only for the Suse distro but also to buy other applications made by Novell and to have the large user base of Novell. They really complete each other applications catalog. Mandriva (Mandrake distribution) could be also a good choice. It's really cheap : 27 M (33 M$) vs 2 913 M$ for Novell and 5 097 M$ for Red hat. Mandrake is a RPM distro so there would be not much work to adapt redhat rpms. They have successfully passed a transition from desktop-centric to server-centric and they have customer services like redhat. So imho, they'll buy Mandriva if they only want a linux distro or buy Novell if they want a bigger breakfast. Larry love to eat other companies so I think Novell Linux will be Oracle Linux soon. Too bad, I liked the way Novell seemed less like a big corp.
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I don't think Ubuntu is a good choice for Oracle. It's desktop centric and there's not much work on the server side.
Redhat would be the best choice as a server distro. Oracle has already done much work to provide RH compatible packages. But you don't buy enemies.
Novell would be a good choice also, not only for the Suse distro but also to buy other applications made by Novell and to have the large user base of Novell. They really complete each other applications catalog.
Mandriva (Mandrake distribution) could be also a good choice. It's really cheap : 27 M (33 M$) vs 2 913 M$ for Novell and 5 097 M$ for Red hat. Mandrake is a RPM distro so there would be not much work to adapt redhat rpms. They have successfully passed a transition from desktop-centric to server-centric and they have customer services like redhat.
So imho, they'll buy Mandriva if they only want a linux distro or buy Novell if they want a bigger breakfast. Larry love to eat other companies so I think Novell Linux will be Oracle Linux soon.
Too bad, I liked the way Novell seemed less like a big corp.