[CVALE] Oracle offering to service Red Hat Linux distributions...

[Matt R Hall]

On 10/27/06, david burzota <david_burzota at hotmail.com> wrote:
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> No thoughts really, just some questions, like:
>
> Does this mean Oracle is not making enough money on it's database products?
> or more generally: Why is Larry Ellison doing this?

My personal guess is with OCFS / OCFS2 in the 2.6.x mainline, they are
planning on making a big move on clustering. With IBM increasingly
focused on the data center and services, and HP focused on blades,
this might not be a bad play if they are looking to maintain revenue
growth in the long run. Maybe they are trying to generalize as they
did when they purchased PeopleSoft. I think the business term is
'horizontal consolidation'.

Just an idea,
Matt