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 at karan.org> >To: centos at 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. > >-- >Karanbir Singh >+44-207-0999389 | http://www.karan.org/ | twitter.com/kbsingh >GnuPG Key : http://www.karan.org/publickey.asc > >_______________________________________________ >CentOS mailing list >CentOS at centos.org >http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > > >