Oracle respins Red Hat (sort of)...

[dsr at tao.merseine.nu]

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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