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. Have you seen any of my other posts, where I describe Sun/Oracle's utterly abysmal and unacceptable support? Perhaps you might, and then you might understand why I, personally, dislike Oracle. They've also always been the high-priced spread. I've never been involved with the contracts, so I simply don't know: perhaps someone here can tell us the difference between the costs of the 3? 4? SLA contracts from RH and Oracle? I'll wager Oracle's is comparable or higher. > > Red Hat and CentOS based on it are #1, it´s only natural that smaller > players want a piece of the pie. In the US: at least five years ago, SuSE was the bigger share in Europe. > > This is different from Novell trying to lure RHEL users exactly how? > http://news.techworld.com/operating-systems/106971/novell-looks-to-lure-red-hat-users/ RH, not free distros. <snip> Just one last question: if you think this highly of OUL, why are you here? Why haven't you gone to their lists? mark "not imputing someone being a marketing troll"