RE: Is Oracle going to be an operating system?

I have not heard anything about Oracle taking over RH, partnering with them yes, but not a take over. RH has been toying with databases for some time. Their CD's use to contain MySql and PostGreSql (which I believe they still do) and for a while there they were supplying the RedHat DB which was a modified version of PostGreSql. It didn't fly very far, so a link to Oracle is a good thing for them. Come to think of it I believe 10G Express Edition is on their CD's now too. The partnering thing today is a reality. Call OTS with a problem & if it's RedHat related you'll end up talking to a RedHat support tech.     

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From: oracle-l-bounce_at_freelists.org
[mailto:oracle-l-bounce_at_freelists.org] On Behalf Of Paul Drake Sent: Friday, November 17, 2006 9:18 AM
To: orcl_at_comcast.net
Cc: oracle-l
Subject: 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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