Software's unfinished business for 2007
The enemy of my enemy...how to kill Red Hat
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| Successive quarters of growing faster than the Linux server market
| had secured Red Hat's position as the open source darling of Wall St.
| Then came Oracle, and that Microsoft and Novell pact.
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| Oracle chief executive Larry Ellison could barely conceal his glee
| when he announced Oracle Unbreakable Linux Network (ULN) at the
| massive OracleWorld conference in October.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/12/27/2006_review_year_ahead/
If the #1 and #2 software giants cannot eliminate Linux, _even jointly_, who
can? Google is currently #3 (can't recall the assessment criterion), at the
expense of IBM which dropped to #4. Both are avid Linux supporters.
Microsoft enters Linux through Novell while Oracle uses Linux everywhere...
even sworn enemies try to mingle.
Related:
Red Hat profit tops Wall Street view, shares soar
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| "Open-source is not going away and Red Hat is the leader," Chowdhry
| said in a telephone interview. "Oracle is a nonevent when
| it comes to open source."
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http://yahoo.reuters.com/news/articlehybrid.aspx?storyID=urn:newsml:reuters.com:20061221:MTFH61389_2006-12-21_23-31-42_N21218848&type=comktNews&rpc=44
http://tinyurl.com/y57we9
Customer Backlash Against Oracle's Buggy Linux Product?
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| And there is other feedback showing that Oracle's Linux is extremely buggy,
| and it keeps crashing, and Oracle has generated quite a bit of backlash and
| animosity from the broader open source community towards Oracle. So, I
| guess the question is, is it realistic to think that Oracle is just going
| to ride this experiment into the ground, or would you expect them to
| possibly withdraw their offering from the marketplace?
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http://biz.yahoo.com/seekingalpha/061222/22921_id.html?.v=1
Sector Snap-Linux
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| Rather than hurt the company, said Merrill Lynch analyst Kash
| Rangan in a note to clients, Oracle's push into the Linux
| business is "validating the market and expanding the pie, which
| is driving more business for Red Hat."
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| Although Red Hat had five weeks of competition during the quarter,
| it only lost a few customers, added the analyst, who has a "Buy"r
| ating on the stock.
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http://www.businessweek.com/ap/financialnews/D8M61MH80.htm
Few takers for Oracle's Uninteresting Linux
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| I've got a good idea. Oracle, you make a lot of software that people
| want to buy. You're the market leader in databases, and doing well
| on the applications side, as well. You don't need to maim yourself
| with Unusable Linux. You don't need to be an also-ran in any market.
| But you are, today, in Linux, whereas you used to be considered an
| important member of the Linux ecosystem. Get back to your roots.
| Leave the fight you can't win.
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http://weblog.infoworld.com/openresource/archives/2006/12/few_takers_for.html
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