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Story: Oracle shows no momentum in Linux effortTotal Replies: 5
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dcparris

Mar 08, 2007
2:33 PM EST 		I assume Oracle knew this before they jumped in.
tuxchick

Mar 08, 2007
2:36 PM EST 		I never believed they were serious about offering their own Linux support. Because the bluster-to-facts ratio was off the scale.
bigg

Mar 08, 2007
2:43 PM EST 		> the bluster-to-facts ratio was off the scale

With Larry Ellison? Couldn't be. (This is sarcasm)
jdixon

Mar 08, 2007
3:58 PM EST 		> 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

Mar 08, 2007
6:09 PM EST 		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

Mar 09, 2007
4:12 AM EST 		> 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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