Re: Is Oracle going to be an operating system?

On 11/16/06, Bob <orcl_at_comcast.net> wrote:
>
> I was in a meeting today with some colleagues giving trip reports from
> open world and apparently from what they seemed to have heard was that
> Oracle was going to "take over Linux". Now we all know that's not going
> to happen, but the tone was that Oracle was really going to get into the
> operating system business... become "grid like"... ;-)
>
> I certainly could see oracle offering their own version on Linux to run
> a "database" server but the message that was presented to me was Oracle
> would offer - customize & support a Linux operating system to run java
> based applications- totally independent of database software
>
> In other words, "oracle" is not just a database anymore!
>
> I know that with MS taking Suse and oracle trying to knock off RH

Bob,

Those were 2 events were press announcements. Did anything actually change?
I think not.
Larry got to exercise his ego and Ballmer got to mess with the fearful. Big deal.

Paul

• the
  > two companies could offer "enterprise level of support" to an enterprise
  > deployment of Linux - is this believable? ... I dont think so ;-)
  > <Im getting in the conversation late though...>
  >
  > What's the consensuses - current mindset - believability of this group
  > of professionals?
  >
  > Long term vision or smokescreen?
  >
  >
  > Thanks
  > Bob
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