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

Posted Oct 27, 2006 18:41 UTC (Fri) by ccchips (subscriber, #3222)
Parent article: Oracle's Red Hat rip-off (Linux-Watch)

Many years ago, I was at a sales briefing from Oracle when our shop was considering databases. I off-handedly asked the chief rep there if Oracle ran or Linux. The guy got all red-faced and said: "Linux is a toy! Oracle will *never* run on that thing"

Now, they recommend it for their database. Now, they are out to do their own release of it. Now, some analysts think Read Hat should worry.

Hmmmm.....what an interesting world we live in.

Maybe open-source developers should start really thinking about application usability and feature-completeness (e.g. OCR software that works seamlessly and accurately with any scanner.)

Because, unless there's a real big conversion in Redmond, Linux and Microsoft Windows may have to duke it out bigtime.