Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
> Oracle's Unbreakable Linux tries to neutralize Microsoft apps
>
> ,----[ Quote
>| Thus, a win for Linux is a win for Oracle as it immediately eliminates SQL
>| Server, Exchange, and Visual Studio from the equation and increases the
>| likelihood that a customer will choose Oracle software, Aslett said.
>|
>| That's true regardless of whether customers choose Oracle Unbreakable Linux ?
>| or Red Hat.
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> http://searchenterpriselinux.techtarget.com/originalContent/0,289142,sid39_gci1282940,00.html
>
> That may be the only good thing Oracle does 'for' Linux. It hurts the
> multiple-time convicted monopoly.
>
Oracle from mysql and postgresql are in as much trouble as Cisco is from
Vyatta and Microsoft is from Linux, Openoffice, Firefox, Sony and Apple.
The difference is that Oracle have moved a lot lot closer to the free
world than the other two recently.
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