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
Oracle still feels threatened by and scared of Open Source. It began its
predatory path of destruction last year when it pretended to be on par with
its rivals. It began an Open Source shopping spree (elimination raw) to rob
big rivals like MySQL of code which they depend on.
Related:
Previewing 2007: Oracle
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| Though it's had a grand 2006 thus far, Oracle stock has
| hit a rough patch recently, down about 13% since November...
|
| Another threat: open-source databases. Open-source software is
| software developed by a global community of programmers, which is
| done through the Internet. For the most part, there is no license
| fee for this type of software. And, yes, there are serious databas
| players, such as Ingres and MySQL.
|
| Realizing the threat, Oracle has been trying to create confusion
| in the open-source marketplace. For example, the company purchased
| some open-source providers, like Sleepycat.
|
| What's more, open source is a threat to Oracle's middleware business
| (this is software that connects two systems, such as a server witha
| database). For example, this year Red Hat purchased the dominant
| open-source middleware player, JBoss.
|
| But Oracle had a brutal response; the company offered to provide
| cut-rate support for Red Hat's services, which resulted in a
| plunge in that company's stock. Interestingly enough, thes
| cuttlebutt is that Oracle did this to make it cheaper to
| utimately buy out Red Hat.
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http://www.fool.com/investing/high-growth/2006/12/28/previewing-2007-oracle.aspx?source=eptyholnk303100&logvisit=y&npu=y
http://tinyurl.com/utqd2
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
PostgreSQL 8.2 Closes The Gap
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| The release is an effort to close the gap on a performance and
| functionality basis between PostgreSQL and its competitive
| proprietary counterparts such as Oracle, IBM's DB2 and Microsoft's
| SQL Server.
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http://www.internetnews.com/dev-news/article.php/3647376
Vonage's Open Source Database Odyssey
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| VoIP vendor Vonage Networks is deploying EnterpriseDB, which is built
| on top of the open source PostgreSQL database as an alternative to
| Oracle. EnterpriseDB Advanced Server adds Oracle compatibility to
| native PostgreSQL as well as performance improvements.
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http://www.internetnews.com/dev-news/article.php/3644946
EnterpriseDB makes big strides in database world
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| EnterpriseDB that month also won US$20 million (NZ$29 million) in
| financing, bringing the total amount of financing it has received
| up to US$28.5 million.
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http://computerworld.co.nz/news.nsf/tech/FC9D352BF6C0EE57CC25722F0081B398
PostgreSQL vs. SQL Server, Oracle: Enterprise-ready and able to compete
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| Why are you paying so much in licensing costs and annual maintenance when
| you could use PostgreSQL for free, and get community support and upgrades
| for free as well? This is the question that Neil Matthew and Richard
| Stones pose to smaller companies regarding their less critical
| applications.
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http://searchopensource.techtarget.com/tip/0,289483,sid39_gci1222466,00.html
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
Oracle Rumored to Covet Ingres
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| Oracle might be looking to acquire open source database
| provider Ingres, according to speculation from analyst
| Bruce Richardson of AMR Research.
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http://www.line56.com/articles/default.asp?ArticleID=8127
Oracle plugs 51 security flaws
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| Oracle on Tuesday released fixes for 51 vulnerabilities that
| affect its software products.
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http://news.zdnet.com/2100-1009_22-6150671.html
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
EnterpriseDB goes after Oracle's European users
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| EnterpriseDB, the open source database company nipping at Oracle's
| heals in the US, is today expected to open its first European sales
| offices in the UK. The opening follows this month's Asia Pacific
| expansion in Hong Kong.
|
| [...]
|
| EnterpriseDB claimed 100 customers during 2006 with growing traction
| among the Oracle base. Earlier this month Enterprise announced new
| support for its PostgreSQL database starting at $1,500 per CPU and
| topping out at $3,000.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/01/26/enterprisedb_european_office/
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