Oracle Builds Linux Support, But Partners Say Adoption Is Weak
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| "We are not seeing Oracle in any major way in the Linux opportunities
| we are encountering," said Ken McLaurin, senior marketing manager of
| open source and virtualization at Akibia, a Westborough, Mass.-based
| solution provider.
|
| Chris Maresca, founding partner at Olliance Group, a Palo Alto,
| Calif.-based solution provider, also said he doesn't see Oracle
| gaining much traction with Linux.
|
| "They don't have much credibility in the Linux community, and they
| are not adding any value to Linux, just support," Maresca said. "In
| that sense, they will always be behind Red Hat."
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http://www.crn.com/software/199201026
Open Source: It's The Service, Silly
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| Maybe that's the real lesson here: needs mean the most, and the
| most effective way of accomplishing them through open source
| could lead to a greater payday in the future.
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http://www.webpronews.com/topnews/2007/04/24/open-source-its-the-service-silly
Related:
Oracle yet to tip Red Hat
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| Oracle is yet to provide evidence Australian customers are switching to
| its Red Hat Linux support program despite announcing new business deals
| for the last quarter.
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http://www.zdnet.com.au/news/software/soa/Oracle_yet_to_tip_Red_Hat/0,130061733,339274627,00.htm?feed=rss
Oracle Linux adopters labelled 'idiots'
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| Meanwhile, McLaren told ZDNet Australia Opes had acquired Red Hat
| support subscriptions with the purchase of two servers from
| channel partner Dell. The hardware vendor then was responsible
| for providing Red Hat support to Opes.
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http://www.zdnet.com.au/news/software/soa/Oracle_Linux_adopters_labelled_idiots_/0,130061733,339274640,00.htm?feed=rss
http://tinyurl.com/3yb5ww
Installation Gotchas for Oracle Linux, Oracle RAC 10gR2 and Vmware ESX 3.0.1
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| Is Oracle Enterprise Linux installation all smooth sailing?
|
| Not really. After carefully selecting all of the possible options,
| (you do know that several binaries like ASM and OCFS come along
| with the Oracle Linux), while going through the installation I
| still came across several anomalies on some rpms.
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http://www.databasejournal.com/features/oracle/article.php/3666476
Enterprise Unix Roundup: Oracle, Enterprise Linux Pioneer?
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| Under no circumstances should it be thought that Oracle is doing
| this out of any sense of altruism, and therein lies the rub.
| Oracle wants to knock Red Hat off the top of the enterprise Linux mountain
| -- no ifs, ands, or buts. And, if Mickos is correct, it will want to
| do the same to MySQL. Even with selfish motivations, Oracle may have
| stumbled on the formula that only FLOSS allows.
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http://www.serverwatch.com/eur/article.php/3657116
Walli: Oracle Doesn't Get It
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| Walli says if Oracle is seriously considering a MySQL support
| service, the database giant ?really, really? doesn?t get it.
| In doing so, the company would be offering its customers a
| competing product that is, in fact, better than its own
| products, for a fraction of the cost. What could that do,
| Walli asks, but destroy Oracle?s own installation base?
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http://www.itbusinessedge.com/blogs/osb/index.php/2007/01/31/walli-oracle-doesnt-get-it/
Oracle Adds Tools to Unbreakable Linux Program
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| Following up announcement of its "Unbreakable Linux" program
| last fall, Oracle Corp has unveiled extensions for its
| Enterprise manager administration tool, which will be
| bundled into two of its three Linux support tiers.
|
| [...]
|
| But during a recent earning call, Oracle president Charles Phillips
| reported 9000 downloads. As we reported back then, during a comparable
| period, Novell's SuSE Linux was hit for 325,000 downloads, while Red Hat's
| non-commercial Fedora Core 6 had an average of 12,500 installations per day
| in its first month.
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http://www.computerwire.com/industries/research/?pid=41CE60EA%2D3C79%2D418F%2D9989%2D0AF704D3BBAE
Will Oracle launch Unbreakable MySQL?
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| "They have hinted to us that they will," said Mickos, indicating
| that the database giant is planning to repeat its October 2006
| Unbreakable Linux plan, which saw it undercut Red Hat with
| enterprise Linux support.
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http://www.businessreviewonline.com/os/archives/2007/01/will_oracle_lau.html
Customer Backlash Against Oracle's Buggy Linux Product?
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| And there is other feedback showing that Oracle's Linux is extremely buggy,
| and it keeps crashing, and Oracle has generated quite a bit of backlash and
| animosity from the broader open source community towards Oracle. So, I
| guess the question is, is it realistic to think that Oracle is just going
| to ride this experiment into the ground, or would you expect them to
| possibly withdraw their offering from the marketplace?
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http://biz.yahoo.com/seekingalpha/061222/22921_id.html?.v=1
Oracle's Offering and Red Hat's Response
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| You may wish to view Larry Ellison's keynote for yourself, in which he
| cited the SCO Group's litigation, believe it or not, claiming it is
| holding back Linux adoption in the enterprise... The vendors aren't
| offering indemnification, Ellison said, and because of SCO, there's
| all this uncertainty and doubt about intellectual property. He says he
| will offer indemnification. In the Q&A at the end, he was asked if
| Oracle was planning to buy SCO to bring that uncertainty to an end.
| No, was the answer.
|
| If he thought they were going to be victorious, he'd buy them in a
| New York minute. No uncertainty or doubt about that. So who is he
| kidding?
|
| Red Hat already has their response on their website, with a big sign
| on their homepage that reads: "Unfakeable Linux - Red Hat responds."
| The most important thing they say is that it's not true that you must
| upgrade to the most recent version to get support, as Elliso
| claimed in his speech.
|
| [...]
|
| Making Linux more successful in the enterprise is the right goal. But
| not if you kill off what makes Linux desirable, namely ethics. It's the
| value add of FOSS, and if the corporate guys don't figure that out soon,
| they really will kill the Golden Goose. Let me explain in one sentence
| why:
|
| Cut throat competition destroys software.
|
| The Open Source process is built on the the same principles that work
| in any scientific environment. You share knowledge. You cooperate.
| Business always wants to balkanize. They very nearly killed Unix
| doing exactly that. And here they go with Linux, trying the same
| stupid thing.
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http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20061026013857159
Unbreakable Linux still unproven, analyst warns
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| IT managers running Red Hat Linux should think carefully before
| making the switch to Unbreakable Linux, the new Linux distribution
| that Oracle Corp. announced last month.
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http://searchopensource.techtarget.com/originalContent/0,289142,sid39_gci1233083,00.html
Oracle F2Q07 (Qtr End 11/30/06) Earnings Call Transcript
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| In the first 30 days, we had 9,000 downloads of Unbreakable Linux
| from our website and hundreds of customers connecting their servers
| to our network.
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http://seekingalpha.com/article/22626
Oracle up to bat: Red Hat bashing possible
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| In what's expected to be an otherwise so-so second quarter report, Oracle
| may shed some light on its two-month-old plan to support Red Hat Linux.
|
| [...]
|
| The wild-card in all this is Oracle's take on its Linux support
| initiative and what that means for Red Hat. Now it is possible
| Oracle won't mention Linux, but typically Larry Ellison slaps
| some rival around and talking trash against SAP has got to be
| getting old.
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http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=4161
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