With free clustering for Unbreakable Linux, Oracle goes after Red Hat (SearchEnterpriseLinux)

Hmmm,

Red Hat doesn't charge for clustering if you use the "Advanced Plattform", nor do they charge
for GFS in the same packageing.

I don't know much about Clusterware, but a good cluster filesystem is needed to build other
then HA clusters.

But I don't think oracle want to be in the Operatingsystem market, they just want to ship
their database as a "black box" solution. Compared to the database and appserver income the
Linux income will never be anything but a sneeze to Oracle.

I believe that they will be giving away (or including in marketing lingo) all the basic stuff
to drive there database, i.e. os + services.

my 2 cents

//jonas