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

[Dennis Baker]

First the Peoplesoft takeover now this?  Personally I think the business
term is "Bad Neighbor".  I would certainly be a little cautious getting into
a business deal with them.

As an Oracle Administrator I can really see the appeal of this though.  I'm
not a big fan of the idea of paying for OS support but having a version of
Linux that is more or less designed around running Oracle has a lot of
appeal.  Additionally for those companies who do want to pay for commercial
support it's much easier to deal with just one vendor for OS and Database
support.  Less finger pointing in any case.

I'm not certain that there is a lot of traction for this outside of existing
Oracle customers though.  Red Hat has a reputation and a history with Linux.
I gues history will tell.  One thing about this that has me interested is
that this news coming shortly after a dissapointing quarter has Redhat's
stock in the cellar.  Down to $15/ share from it's recent high of $26 or
so... ouch.   I'm thinking it might be a good time to finally take a small
stake in a Linux company.

-- Dennis

On 10/27/06, Matt R Hall <mhall at mhcomputing.net> wrote:
>
> On 10/27/06, david burzota <david_burzota at hotmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > 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
>
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