Oracle's Red Hat rip-off (Linux-Watch)

Posted Oct 26, 2006 23:18 UTC (Thu) by jrigg (guest, #30848)
Parent article: Oracle's Red Hat rip-off (Linux-Watch)

Here's a report on this on the BBC news website:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/6088896.stm

Oracle's Red Hat rip-off (Linux-Watch)

Posted Oct 27, 2006 2:05 UTC (Fri) by aotheoverlord (guest, #3993) [Link] (1 responses)

>> Here's a report on this on the BBC news website:
>>
>> http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/6088896.stm

Obviously none of those analysts have ever had to deal with Oracle support. It's not nicknamed 'Orable for nothing you know!

Support flows like water off the tap (in analysts dreams)

Posted Oct 27, 2006 5:31 UTC (Fri) by eru (subscriber, #2753) [Link]

Obviously none of those analysts have ever had to deal with Oracle support. It's not nicknamed 'Orable for nothing you know!

Or they did not even pause to think for a second about what the word "support" really means. Look at this from the BBC article:
"Current and prospective Red Hat customers now have an alternative for support from a larger, more experienced vendor

Experienced with what? Supporting Oracle products, of course. It's not at all the same thing as supporting Linux. "Support" is not some multipurpose commodity like water or gasoline...