Oracle raises Red Flag Linux over China (ZDNet) [LWN.net]

Oracle pushes "Unbreakable Linux" into China, according to this CNetAsia article. "The Oracle China Development Centre and Red Flag have completed certification of Oracle9i Database on the Red Flag Linux operating system, and are now working together on certification of the remainder of Oracle's complete product line on the new Red Flag Data Centre Linux operating system."

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Oracle raises Red Flag Linux over China (ZDNet)

Posted May 9, 2003 19:48 UTC (Fri) by naughty-artkitekt (guest, #10552) [Link]

Looks like THIS flag has been captured & secured. Now, hopefully the spirit of
Open Source will not be abominated or proprietarized. But, if there is a "reverse
capture", then maybe Oracle will become, someday, BeijiCle, heehehe...

If CHINA fosters Open Source ideals (after all, isn't this a nation where intellectual
property was the PEOPLE'S property, heheh?), then suddenly Linux, in Red Flag
Linux, could be THE largest example of Open Source adoption ever.

Now, if only Pakistan has PakNux (like Nucks, not Nooks as in nyoo-kyeh-luhr...
hehe ) and if India has INux, then maybe 3 BILLION people could be the flag
posts of Linux.

Quite a massive kudos.

Well, well, so much for Linux being a "cancer" and "an IP destroyer" and
"Anti-American". Linux was never MEANT to be "American". It is of, for and BY
the PEOPLE of the WORLD, and no ragged or hyper nation shall ever own it (not
"legally legally", at least...)

(Yeh, I have w98 (legit, via Gateway) , but the beast is caged inside of my legit
Win4Lin. Whenever IBM and Lotus decide to port (a bit when and if) SmartSuite
to Linux, I can FINALLY dump 98 into the fireplace.

But, oooooh, Larry Ellison MUST have died and gone to heaven, hehehe, or at
least feel like it... And, he also must be verrrah verrrah haahpeh to not have any
noise restrictions on his larger but actually quiet plane that San Jose tried to ban
years ago (did they ever resolve that? All was done to his plan was some
lengthening and uprating. I belive the SIZE of the plane is what pushed him
beyond some inflexible, inane rules the FAA or SJ or SJ + the FAA had when in
reality his plane was quieter than the larger planes the rules were MEANT to
curtail. Inanenly or in outdated fashion, policy makers presumed the larger the
plane the noisier. But, Ellison's plane broke the dumb rules by being larger but
quieter and HE broke the dumb rules by landing anyway. Landing fines? Pocket
change?).

David Syes

Oracle raises Red Flag Linux over China (ZDNet)

Posted May 12, 2003 6:58 UTC (Mon) by proski (subscriber, #104) [Link]

I think you are overestimating the importance of Red Flag Linux in China. I was told it's not the most popular distribution in China, maybe not ever the number two. Red Hat and Mandrake have reasonably good support for mainland Chinese locale.

Your reference to "3 billion" users sounds ridiculous. Don't get too excited when you are speculating.