[CentOS] CentOS Project joins forces with Red Hat

Thu Jan 9 13:35:16 UTC 2014
Leslie S Satenstein <lsatenstein at yahoo.com>

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




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>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.
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