[CentOS] Oracle tries to capture CentOS users

[m.roth at 5-cent.us]

Craig White wrote:
>
> On Jul 20, 2012, at 8:37 AM, Fernando Cassia wrote:
>
>> On Fri, Jul 20, 2012 at 12:12 PM,  <m.roth at 5-cent.us> wrote:
>>> No, you should pay us, says Larry, I need to keep my yacht and fighter
>>> jet taken care of....
>>
>> Once again, the problem seems to be hatred of Ellison more than anything
>> else.
> ----
> some people object to Ellison and I would suspect that many more just
> don't trust Oracle as a corporation but there are some businesses that
> rely upon Oracle too.
>
> I would suspect that few will actually switch from CentOS to OUL just
> because of their offer but it is just a re-spin of the RHEL, like CentOS
> and Scientific Linux so it's relatively easy to switch back and forth
> anyway. Oracle really doesn't care whether users install their OUL... they
> want to sell SLA's which they sell cheaper than Red Hat which has caused a
> rather sucky side effect which makes it more difficult to produce
> customized kernels which would never have happened had Oracle not chosen
> to ride the coattails of Red Hat and undercut the pricing (just another
> reason that some dislike Oracle).

Don't worry, just as soon as Oracle drives RH under, or buys them, they'll
crank up the prices to higher than RH now - I mean, Oracle's a *lot*
bigger than RH, and can afford the loss leader for a while.

        mark "and the quality of their service will drop, if that's
                  possible"