On Thu, 2006-10-26 at 09:22 -0500, Johnny Hughes wrote: > On Wed, 2006-10-25 at 21:46 -0600, Tarun Reddy wrote: > > So what does everyone else think of Oracle's announcement? http:// > > developers.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/10/25/2316221 > > > > I kind of think that they are going to be hurting RedHat (a valuable > > partner if you believe their deployment numbers). > > > > Well ... IBM, Novell and Oracle were very unhappy when Red Hat bought > JBOSS. Red Hat has now deployed the Red Hat Web Application Stack that > includes 2 JBOSS application server products and competes with other > middleware produced by Oracle and IBM. > > Oracle just considers this tit-for-tat in that they are going to move > into Red Hat's market if Red Hat insists on moving into theirs. > > Red Hat made a business decision to grow their business in a different > direction and, according to Oracle, that caused the Oracle action. It > is too late now to put either genie back in the bottle. > > Regardless where you stand on this issue, it should not have come as a > surprise to anyone. > > This might have an impact on RHEL, I don't see it having any impact on > CentOS. (The cost difference between RHEL ES and the Oracle versions > are not that great, at least on i386 ... and any supported oracle > database is going to be on a paid OS anyway, be it Oracle or RHEL) > > Thanks, > Johnny Hughes Yes, but if Red Hat takes measures to protect their sources (like taking them off-line and making them available only on-request) to slow Oracle down, it could hurt CentOS. That would be a shame...