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Oracle takes aim at CentOSOracle takes aim at CentOSPosted Jul 19, 2012 6:39 UTC (Thu) by lindahl (subscriber, #15266)Parent article: Oracle takes aim at CentOS
This is an even-more-cackhanded than usual marketing effort by Oracle. CentOS has made some significant changes since 2011, with some major players (hosting providers, mostly) ponying up an appropriate amount of resources to make things significantly better in 2012 than 2011. This marketing campaign preys on the FUD of "what if the bad old days came back?" A more realistic analysis is that 2011 woke the CentOS community up, and the community did the right thing. If Oracle wanted to play this sort of game, they should have done it in 2011, not now.
Late hit, 2 beer penalty. Send Larry out next time, he was really amusing with the "I like Linux because it puts more money in my pocket" speech.
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Oracle takes aim at CentOS Posted Jul 19, 2012 12:37 UTC (Thu) by pboddie (subscriber, #50784) [Link] Not to mention Oracle's miserable record when it comes to supporting its own stuff. Apart from the laughable strategy of big, infrequent updates to their "unbreakable" product range which, if previous experience with Oracle's core products is anything to go by, is probably a nightmare for administrators, Oracle have been very good at talking the talk and then dropping features and whole products when it suits them. On two occasions I've been witness to Oracle functionality in their headline product going away after a while, on one occasion the functionality concerned being the main reason for a big project going with the product - probably another reason why I doubt that project ever got delivered - and I dare not think what life is like for people really spending money and using the different Oracle business applications. And we can always ask what iteration of Oracle's GNU/Linux distribution strategy this is. Really, people should be actively figuring out how to give less of their money to Oracle, not more.
Oracle takes aim at CentOS Posted Jul 19, 2012 19:50 UTC (Thu) by robfantini (subscriber, #22913) [Link]
Instead of two beers the referee should insist that Oracle make the zfs license FSF / CentOS / Debian GNU Linux compatible.
Oracle takes aim at CentOS Posted Jul 19, 2012 19:56 UTC (Thu) by lindahl (subscriber, #15266) [Link]
btrfs has an ok license, so I think we're good.
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