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On Tue, Oct 31, 2006 at 03:48:30PM -0500, Christoph Doerbeck wrote: > > What motivated Larry E. to make such a move? Thoughts of profits, presumably. > Do you think they can succeed at delivering a long term Linux solution? No. Note that Oracle is not selling the key value proposition of Red Hat -- which is to say, a supported distribution -- but rather hand-holding support that must either: - escalate to Red Hat or - fork RH. > I remember when SUN made a lot of noise with their own respin of RH-v7.2 > I think it was. They were UNIX people (also owned Cobalt/Linux) and > still failed to gain traction. Sun had a lot of good ideas with Cobalt. If they had continued it as an integral part of their offering, I think they would have eventually made a lot of money. Instead they saw it as a threat that they could buy and kill. -dsr- -- .-.. -... .... . --.. .-. ..-. ..-. -. - .-. ...- ..-. -... --- ..-. .--. .-. .- .-. ...- .- ..-. -... --.. .-. -.-. -. . --. -... ... --. ..- .-. .--- -... . -.-- --.- ..-. ..- ...- --. ..-. -... ...- ..-. --. ..- ...- ..-. -... .- .-. -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.
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