Roy Schestowitz wrote:
> Yankee Group: Time Is Ripe For Oracle Linux
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> | Oracle Corp. building or buying its own Linux stack offers possibilities
> | that would allow the company to compete with established open-source
> | market leaders Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Novell SUSE Linux, according
> | to an analyst.
> |
> | Yankee Group research fellow Laura DiDio estimates Red Hat already
> | owns between 75 percent and 80 percent of the commercial open-source
> | distribution market.
What a load of bollocks - Yankee$ employs a computer illiterate
to do estimates of markets?
PooOOORRRWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAAAAA!!!
So do they expect anyone to buy an expensive yankee$ report
written by a dildo?
Or worse, have any of you paid?
Doh!
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> http://www.techweb.com/wire/software/189602096
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> Mandatory background:
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> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laura_Didio
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> | An example of her opinion on how Open Source Software is handled shows
> | in this remark (quoted from a phone interview from her home in
> | Massachusetts): "The thing about Linux is, you can talk about a free,
> | open operating system all you want, but you can't take that idea of free
> | and open and put it into a capitalist system and maintain it as though
> | it is some kind of hippie commune or ashram, because if you can do it
> | like that, at that point I'm like, 'Pass the hookah please!'" [1]
> |
> | Even recently, after admitting that a SCO victory in their case against
> | IBM seemed like an extreme longshot, Didio said, "There is a larger
> | issue, though: Even if the SCO case gets dismissed entirely, it does
> | not remove the copyright cloud hanging over Linux and open source." [2]
> |
> | [...]
> |
> | Unsurprisingly, Linux advocates have in response heavily criticised
> | DiDio. Typical criticisms are a lack of formal Computer Science
> | qualifications and promoting studies funded by Microsoft; frequently
> | this has resulted in questioning of her integrity and her being
> | characterised as "a Microsoft shill".
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