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Oracle makes bid for Red Hat's base
2006-10-26
ORACLE is taking aim at Linux distributor Red Hat with an offer to provide half-price technical support to Red Hat Linux users. Speaking at the company's annual user conference in San Francisco, Oracle ,
The goal is to enhance and speed the adoption of Linux. Our support costs less than half what Red Hat charges.
chairman and chief executive Larry Ellison said the company was seeking to solve key problems that have held back the development of Linux among big corporate customers. "As of this moment, Oracle is announcing full support for Red Hat Linux," Mr Ellison told thousands of attendees at the company's annual OracleWorld conference. "The goal is to enhance and speed the adoption of Linux. Our support costs less than half what Red Hat charges," he said.

Linux is the most popular variant of open source software, which allows developers to share code in order to focus on creating new features themselves. Software like Linux allows customers to use programs for free, paying only for custom features, maintenance and technical support.
Posted by:Fred

#11  Truth is that Redhat cvahrges about $800 per year per machine for the lowest level of license.

And thats expensicve when you thnk about the life of the machine, and the fact tht most low-end servers run in the $2000 range.

Oracle manages to put together a Linux distro that supports their database and cuts in half the licensing/support costs (which is the biggest chunk of expense inthe lifespan of a system)? I say Hurrah - and thanks for saving US taxpayers the money!


Posted by: OldSpook   2006-10-26 12:56  

#10  I agree fully with #1, now I go take a #2
Posted by: Captain America   2006-10-26 12:52  

#9  There's not enough room in this world to contain Larry Ellison's ego

He makes Donald Trump look like Ghandi.
Posted by: Raj   2006-10-26 08:14  

#8  Ellison has a long history of buying into business lines / products / application areas and then shifting out of them quickly a few years later.


However, he is indeed hurting a bit since IBM is making significant advances in new areas -- personalized information agents, vector machines, various areas of intelligent software to name a few. These will transform the database application scene over the next 5-7 years and Oracle has nothing to offer in response. So Ellison is trying to sop up the existing Linux intergration business while he can.
Posted by: lotp   2006-10-26 07:42  

#7  The big O wants to gobble my employer as well. I can't see where that's going to work out well for very many here, myself included.
Posted by: JerseyMike   2006-10-26 07:15  

#6  Haven't been doing db2, so will take your word for it. But oracle is no miracle either.
Posted by: twobyfour   2006-10-26 05:27  

#5  I think rather than hosing RedHat, Oracle wants to go up against IBM, the other Linux supporter, especially in database areas, such as IBM's DB2 product line.

I hope they succeed. Nothing sucks like DB2.
Posted by: Robert Crawford   2006-10-26 05:14  

#4  Joe, maybe they need a bit of voodoo. It's after all oracle.
Posted by: twobyfour   2006-10-26 04:43  

#3  Guam's government tried since Year 2000, and before, to get its new ORACLE systems up-and-running - alas, to no avail. ORACLE > "IT"-THAT-MUST-NOT-BE-NAMED.
Posted by: JosephMendiola   2006-10-26 04:30  

#2  There's not enough room in this world to contain Larry Ellison's ego, lol.
Posted by: .com   2006-10-26 03:27  

#1  I think rather than hosing RedHat, Oracle wants to go up against IBM, the other Linux supporter, especially in database areas, such as IBM's DB2 product line.

Unfortunately Red Hat may suffer for this.
Posted by: badanov   2006-10-26 00:44  

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