Red Hat CEO likens Oracle to US car manufacturer

Posted by dcparris on Apr 20, 2006 11:34 PM
By The Register
Mail this story
Web version

Red Hat chief executive Matthew Szulik has added his voice to the growing stream of rebuttals to Larry Ellison's comments about buying Novell and "owning" Linux. In an open letter to the Financial Times, Szulik criticized the 30-year track record of companies like Oracle in their treatment of customers and signed off essentially saying the days of closed-source software vendors are numbered.

Full Story

Printed at http://lxer.com/module/newswire/view/59025/index.html