Oracle's moves vs Red Hat

Oracle's moves vs Red Hat

Posted Dec 21, 2006 4:28 UTC (Thu) by bos (subscriber, #6154)
Parent article: A 2006 retrospective

Quoth Jon: "Similarly, the notion that Oracle would try to muscle into Linux support by repackaging Red Hat Enterprise Linux was a surprise."

This really isn't what they did at all, I believe. Their announcement was a broadside across Red Hat's bow, to force them to deal on terms more favourable to Oracle.

The financial side of the announcement doesn't make any sense to Oracle, since they don't have a sales or support organisation capable of dealing in monetary terms of less than about $200k per customer; and the support side doesn't make any sense to customers, since Oracle's support is not renowned for its quality. So looking at it in terms of software business realpolitik is much more entertaining.

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