Red Hat, Oracle: Cross Currents in the Linux Market
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| Barnicle's findings contrast with chatter that Oracle's Linux effort
| had fallen flat. Barnicle notes that his survey can't be taken as
| gospel, but it is worth noting.
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http://biz.yahoo.com/seekingalpha/070319/29875_id.html?.v=1
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Red Hat: Customers Not Using Oracle as Bargaining Chip
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| According to Rangan, Szulik said Red Hat is seeing "limited impact"
| from the new Linux offerings from Oracle and Microsoft/Novell.
| "Customers are not using ORCL's offering as a bargaining tool, as
| feared by the Street," Rangan writes, apparently paraphrasing Szulik.
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http://biz.yahoo.com/seekingalpha/070215/27140_id.html?.v=1
Oracle drives rise of open source embedded database
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| Oracle acquired Berkeley DB's originator, Sleepycat, in February
| 2006, provoking speculation that it was moving to close down
| some of the open source competition that was eating at its market
| share. Instead, Oracle has provided a commercially licensed version
| alongside the open source project.
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http://www.computerweekly.com/Articles/2007/03/15/222420/oracle-drives-rise-of-open-source-embedded-database.htm
http://tinyurl.com/2a35nd
Oracle deteriorating: Sony Pictures CIO
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| Sony Pictures chief information officer David Cortese has slammed
| Oracle's acquisition strategy claiming customer service levels
| have dropped and its products have become "stale".
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http://www.zdnet.com.au/news/software/soa/Oracle_deteriorating_Sony_Pictures_CIO/0,130061733,339274254,00.htm
http://tinyurl.com/yo2rq8
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