Oracle's Red Hat rip-off (Linux-Watch)
Oracle's Red Hat rip-off (Linux-Watch)
Posted Oct 26, 2006 18:32 UTC (Thu) by tjc (guest, #137)Parent article: Oracle's Red Hat rip-off (Linux-Watch)
This article is obviously an emotional response, probably written in haste.
Oracle is abiding by the terms of the licenses, at least as far as we know at this point. I agree that it does look somewhat grim for Red Hat, at least short term. On the other hand, I don't have much confidence that Oracle can provide support for Linux as well as Red Hat does. Red Hat has been doing this for a long time, and they're good at it.
Posted Oct 26, 2006 19:04 UTC (Thu)
by ronaldcole (guest, #1462)
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Posted Oct 26, 2006 19:22 UTC (Thu)
by nix (subscriber, #2304)
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So if these guys migrate en masse to what Oracle's now recommending (i.e.
--- of course it'll keep going: Cygnus ran for years with far fewer
Posted Oct 27, 2006 0:27 UTC (Fri)
by phgrenet (guest, #5979)
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Posted Oct 27, 2006 21:36 UTC (Fri)
by ronaldcole (guest, #1462)
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It isn't going to hurt Red Hat any worse than CentOS or White Box does. I truly doubt that Oracle is going to update SpamAssassin in RHEL3, for example. It wouldn't be in their financial interest to fork RHEL, so I have to believe that they'll simply track RHEL... just like CentOS and White Box. The only value I see Oracle adding is their assurance that their database and their "re-branded" RHEL play nicely together.Oracle's Red Hat rip-off (Linux-Watch)
Well, actually, in the Unix world Oracle is a big beast business-wise. Oracle's Red Hat rip-off (Linux-Watch)
Every non-IT-core business I know outside the networking world that has
chosen Linux has chosen it for one reason and one reason only: because
Oracle recommends it and it runs on fairly cheap hardware (the latter not
so important given the immense cost of Oracle licenses). And I'd be
willing to wager that these are the guys who bring much of the money in to
RHEL.
their own distro), it'll harm RH, oh yes.
customers than RH is ever likely to fall to. But it might be hard for a
while.
I'm not so sure about this. I can tell you that big Linux and UNIX shops like the company I work for want to standardize everything on one distro, because it makes everything easier and cheaper. The price of the distro itself is a small parameter in the overall cost equation. I don't see RHEL being displaced in medium or big companies even on database machines.Oracle's Red Hat rip-off (Linux-Watch)
If they don't fork, but just track, then hurting Red Hat isn't in their best interest either. That is, unless they're ulterior motive is to eventually steal RHEL right out from under Red Hat. If Red Hat goes belly-up, Oracle is probably in a position to hire all the newly "liberated" developers. If that happened, what would become of Fedora? Of course, that's an awful lot of "if"s!Oracle's Red Hat rip-off (Linux-Watch)