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On Tue, 31 Oct 2006 15:48:30 -0500 Christoph Doerbeck <christoph at linuxsoup.com> wrote: > I just searched the BLU archives and didn't spot any threads on the > Oracle announcement. I am curious to here what opinions you folks have. > > What motivated Larry E. to make such a move? > Does anyone think this is a good idea for Oracle (share holders)? > Do you think they can succeed at delivering a long term Linux solution? I don't think it is a good idea for Linux. I think that Larry's motivation is to have an Oracle optimized Linux. It is expensive for Oracle to work with the existing distros. If I were a data center manager, I would probably prefer to have a single enterprise distribution in the center. But, if the Oracle distro would provide me with a significant performance improvement for Oracle, I would probably opt to obtain that distro. But if it did not provide me with a significant benefit either cost, performance, or support I would probably prefer one of the other distros, primarily Red Hat or Novell. -- Jerry Feldman <gaf at blu.org> Boston Linux and Unix user group http://www.blu.org PGP key id:C5061EA9 PGP Key fingerprint:053C 73EC 3AC1 5C44 3E14 9245 FB00 3ED5 C506 1EA9 -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: not available URL: <http://lists.blu.org/pipermail/discuss/attachments/20061031/1350bd8c/attachment.sig>
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