Redhat vs. Oracle

[Jim]

Had a opportunity to attend a LUG meeting last night, and a Oracle  rep. 
spoke on their product.
Kind of got the feeling that the God $Microsoft had just arrived.
The expression of ARROGANCE was in the room.
Like Redhat is not bowing down to us (Oracle).
He made a statement about a kernel patch that they sent to Redhat  that 
deals with  Oracle and Redhat didn't
put it in their kernel and Suse did,  (Well!!! the nerve of Redhat).
My own personal perspective is , that  Oracle would just love to see 
Redhat stock go to the bottom, so they could
step in, take over Redhat. Their CEO Larry Somebody would just love to 
be the $Microsoft of Linux.
It kind of appeared to me that they didn't get the kind of feedback they 
where seeking from this meeting, they came in with a
WindowsXP laptop, to give their presentation on. I'm sure it would have 
came off great if they had walked into a  $Microsoft meeting with a 
loaded Linux Laptop. They didn't even  stay after the presentation to 
talk with others, they scooped up their $MS laptop and got out of there
It would be a dark day in Linux if Oracle got there hands on Redhat, 
Redhat has been the foremost company in giving back to the Linux 
community. Oracle has only one thing in mind, Just making money, and to 
hell with the community.
What would happen to Fedora if there was no Redhat, Think about it.

Jim

[Tom Horsley]

Ah, but Oracle offering their own distribution and support will
be a good thing. Why with Oracle's resources they will be
able to close bugs with the status "upstream" in mere days
instead of the weeks it takes Redhat :-).

[Paul Osunero]

Tom Horsley wrote:
>  Ah, but Oracle offering their own distribution and support will
>  be a good thing. Why with Oracle's resources they will be
>  able to close bugs with the status "upstream" in mere days
>  instead of the weeks it takes Redhat :-).
>
>    
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    /

    So what are the benefits of going with Oracle Enterprise Linux? At
    the moment, considering the weirdness we've had already with the
    bootloader screen, the applications menu and the Mozilla
    disappearing act, we'd strongly recommend waiting a few months to
    let Oracle iron out these bugs.

    /


Redhat's not that bad with bugs anyway, not in my experience at least...

[Justin Zygmont]

>  WindowsXP laptop, to give their presentation on. I'm sure it
> would have came 
>  off great if they had walked into a  $Microsoft meeting with a loaded Linux 
ha, that sounds just like it too, they too big and out of touch and 
don;t even care about OSS, they won't beat redhat.

[g33kfu]

Plus has anyone actually ever used Oracle support for Oracle products?  IT
SUCKS!!  They are extremely slow.

On 1/4/07, Justin Zygmont <jzygmont(a)solarflow.net&gt; wrote:
>  > WindowsXP laptop, to give their presentation on. I'm sure it would have
>  came
>  > off great if they had walked into a  $Microsoft meeting with a loaded
>  Linux
>
>  ha, that sounds just like it too, they too big and out of touch and
>  don;t even care about OSS, they won't beat redhat.
>
>
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