Oracle respins Red Hat (sort of)...

[mshields at namemedia.com (Matt Shields)]

Cobalt servers from Cobalt Networks was a great product, until Sun
bought them and killed the product.  They made it really easy to
implement linux in small offices.  I used quite a few of their servers
when I consulted.  I know at least one place is still using a Cobalt
Qube to this day and it works great for their firewall, mail server and
intranet.  And it cost a lot less than paying the M$ tax.

Matthew Shields
Sr Systems Administrator
NameMedia, Inc.
(P) 781-839-2828
mshields at namemedia.com
http://www.namemedia.com
 
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From: discuss-bounces at blu.org [mailto:discuss-bounces at blu.org] On Behalf
Of dsr at tao.merseine.nu
Sent: Tuesday, October 31, 2006 3:55 PM
To: Christoph Doerbeck
Cc: discuss at blu.org
Subject: Re: Oracle respins Red Hat (sort of)...

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-


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