As I see it, more and more alternatives to Oracle are in the market. Hadoop, is cutting into Oracle's revenue.
So, RH needs to concentrate on promoting JBOSS and a version of HADOOP. Don't worry about Oracle.
Regards
Leslie
Mr. Leslie Satenstein
From: Karanbir Singh mail-lists@karan.org To: centos@centos.org Sent: Thursday, January 9, 2014 7:55 AM Subject: Re: [CentOS] CentOS Project joins forces with Red Hat
On 01/09/2014 08:34 AM, Rob Kampen wrote:
Is this for real? Oracle are apparently a thorn in the side to RH and thus all the changes to C6 that caused lots of delays ...... if this changes as indicated, doesn't that negate all those changes and give Oracle a leg up to getting their clone to market sooner? I guess I'm missing something
I really dont know how oracle's linux rebuild effort works - but as far as I -do- know, the sources are available at the same time to everyone right ? its a case of what you do with them and how you do it.
Also, i think people are reading too far into the delays for C6 were caused by redhat - it was also down to limited resources, machines, time and almost no QA infra at .centos.org :: that contributed quite a lot. Things that we have overcome and built up in the last few years.
Might also be worth noting that we have a centos7beta up internally already.
Look at it another way - we are not working with the RHEL teams, we are working with the RH open source and standards team ( that has no real input into RHEL ) - to expand what we do with the platform, rather than carry on with the single focus of the platform. And I think being more open and more community driven, we -can- improve across the board.
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