On Wednesday, January 26, 2011 11:55 AM, Always Learning wrote:
On Tue, 2011-01-25 at 14:25 -0800, Benjamin Smith wrote:
On Tuesday, January 25, 2011 11:20:34 am Always Learning wrote:
Then one day a big bad wolf called Oracle of very expensive Oracle SQL fame swallowed Red Hat, like they swallowed MySQL, Solaris, Open Office and Visual Box. The long term future for these is uncertain.
Whaaa...? Facts would seem otherwise.... Here's an article from just a few months ago!
http://www.glgroup.com/News/Oracle-to-Red-Hat--Its-Not-Your-Fathers-Linux- Market-Anymore-51058.html
Thank you. Happily I got the 'swallowed Red Hat' wrong. Sadly the long term future for Red Hat, MySQL, Open Office and Visual Box is certainly uncertain.
Ah, I get your drift! Illumos and OpenIndiana is the way to go!
Will we one day be dependent on open source Chinese Linux if Western open source Linux dries-up ?
???
Surely you mean stuff from the rising sun Illumos and OpenIndiana!