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"