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Oracle shows no momentum in Linux effort

Posted by Scott_Ruecker on · 6 comments
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Oracle Corp. promised to take the Linux software world by storm last October, but the major expansion by one of the world's largest software companies so far has failed to show momentum. Tiny rival Red Hat Inc., which over a decade built a services business around Linux and legitimized the free, cooperatively developed operating system for corporate computing, has survived the onslaught and even grown.

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Comments (6)

dcparris ·
I assume Oracle knew this before they jumped in.
tuxchick ·
I never believed they were serious about offering their own Linux support. Because the bluster-to-facts ratio was off the scale.
bigg ·
> the bluster-to-facts ratio was off the scale

With Larry Ellison? Couldn't be. (This is sarcasm)
jdixon ·
> the bluster-to-facts ratio was off the scale

We'll probably never know what Larry/Oracle were trying to achieve, but it seems fairly certain that it didn't work.

I'm guessing that Oracle hoped to knock Red Hat's share price down enough to stage a hostile takeover, but that's purely a guess on my part.
vainrveenr ·
Well, Oracle may certainly have *tried* to knock down RH, as SJVN pointed out in 'The Real Point of Unbreakable Linux: Breaking Red Hat', http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,2090899,00.asp

Just wondering what else might have been behind Oracle's move to do this in the first place. It couldn't have had anything to do with Bully Ballmer's and Charmy Billy's folks in Redmond now, could it ??
jdixon ·
> It couldn't have had anything to do with Bully Ballmer's and Charmy Billy's folks in Redmond now, could it ??

Unlikely. Larry and Bill have never had that good of a relationship.

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