Larry Ellison's Linux Distraction
from the good-luck-with-that dept
Oracle has been working hard in the last few months to
buy up various open source companies. Even as they failed to acquire JBoss, losing it to Red Hat, Larry Ellison is now talking about how much he thinks
Oracle should be offering its own Linux distribution in order to better compete with Microsoft up and down the "stack." This leads to added speculation that Oracle would look to buy out Novell. Still, this seems more about Ellison competing with Bill Gates, rather than Oracle competing with Microsoft. If anything, it sounds like the type of thing that could be distracting to Oracle, and get them focused on a market that doesn't do much to serve their existing customers -- and even opening up an opportunity for companies like SAP to grab more market share. Owning the operating system isn't necessary any more -- especially if it's Linux. The only real benefit to Oracle putting weight into Linux might be to harm Microsoft, rather than help itself.
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Ornix
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And when
And when MySQL catches up to PostgreSQL, then Oracle can get worried.
Oracle will be more of a kiss of death to SuSE than anything else.
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Database centric OS
By the way, Larry. If you want someone to help you design it all, then give me a call. I'll work for stock options.
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Re: Database centric OS
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alt linux dist
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Larry !!!!
I believe Larry is talking a lot of smack.
http://news.ft.com/cms/s/5f7bdc18-ce85-11da-a032-0000779e2340.html
When he says; "If an open source product gets good enough, we’ll simply take it." Well that is fine Larry but according to the GPL, then you will have to give back to the Open Source Community all your improvements, , unless I interpreted that incorrectly.
Oracle is great for the very large corporations, but there are several good Open Source Databases out there that can service the rest of the planet, I think that worries Larry more than he will let on.
Anyother Linux distro, please don't Larry, we don't need you half assing that.
Joe
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Larry !!!!
I believe Larry is talking a lot of smack.
http://news.ft.com/cms/s/5f7bdc18-ce85-11da-a032-0000779e2340.html
When he says; "If an open source product gets good enough, we’ll simply take it." Well that is fine Larry but according to the GPL, then you will have to give back to the Open Source Community all your improvements, , unless I interpreted that incorrectly.
Oracle is great for the very large corporations, but there are several good Open Source Databases out there that can service the rest of the planet, I think that worries Larry more than he will let on.
Another Linux distro, please don't Larry, we don't need you half assing that.
Joe
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