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Posted Mar 27, 2008 22:14 UTC (Thu) by AnswerGuy (subscriber, #1256)
In reply to: With free clustering for Unbreakable Linux, Oracle goes after Red Hat (SearchEnterpriseLinux) by Los__D
Parent article: With free clustering for Unbreakable Linux, Oracle goes after Red Hat (SearchEnterpriseLinux)


   "... (more or less) RedHat's own product?"

Without really trying to diminish Red Hat's own contributions to the community nor their own
in-house development efforts I'd have to consider it "less" their own product and "more" the
product of the open source community at large.

So Oracle can proceed with a clear conscience (as much as any corporation can be described as
having a conscience) so long as they contribute back to the community at large and abide by
the licenses, trademark rules, etc.

(Yeah, I know they are playing out their own games ... they are being kind to Red Hat and
there's probably a lot of back room politics, knee-biting and back stabbing going on.  That's
between them and Red Hat and we can pick sides or choose to be neutral or even to condemn them
both).

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Posted Mar 28, 2008 8:11 UTC (Fri) by Los__D (subscriber, #15263) [Link]

Of course, but RedHat is actually doing something to (let's call it) assemble the product, and
is being a big part of the development.

Oracle is just replacing stickers, AFAIK.

Posted Mar 28, 2008 18:43 UTC (Fri) by martinfick (subscriber, #4455) [Link]

Perhaps you are not familiar with ocfs or ocfs2?

Posted Mar 29, 2008 0:27 UTC (Sat) by drag (subscriber, #31333) [Link]

Or btrfs for that matter
http://oss.oracle.com/projects/btrfs/