Oracle Virtual Server Unlikely to Blunt VMware
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| He noted that Burlington Coat Factory is also evaluating whether to replace
| its SUSE Linux software with Oracle’s Unbreakable Linux implementation, which
| would give the company another reason to use Oracle VM.
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http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=308053&intsrc=news_ts_head
Related:
Oracle's Unbreakable Linux tries to neutralize Microsoft apps
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| 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
Ellison on Microsoft abuses:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ssX4RL24HT4
Why does Larry Ellison have a Red Hat fetish?
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| Larry doesn't understand open source. This isn't surprising since the people
| who report to him apparently don't, either (though I don't include Mike Olson
| in that crowd - he's a victim of golden handcuffs :-). Oracle desperately
| wants open source to be "just another tool" that it uses for IT domination.
| It's not. It actually has the opposite effect.
|
| Oracle just can't grok this.
|
| It wants to own the Linux kernel. It can't. It wanted to own JBoss. It
| couldn't. Open source is about controlling through sharing, but Oracle
| doesn't do the "share" thing very well.
|
| And so we'll have to sporadically endure Mr. Ellison's ego pronouncing
| himself god of the Linux world, despite his Linux business being so anemic
| that he won't break out its numbers. If the numbers are so great, report
| them, Mr. Ellison. (Having said this, it's important to note that Oracle
| stopped breaking out revenue by product line many years ago.)
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http://blogs.cnet.com/8301-13505_1-9817945-16.html?tag=head
Ellison: 'Fusion Must Coexist'
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| Ellison also acknowledged Red Hat's growth in "a healthy market" for both
| companies. "We're also doing something Red Hat isn't, which is shipping
| Oracle VM underneath our Linux offering so there is a single stack of code.
| If you have applications that run on Red Hat, it will run unchanged on
| Oracle's enterprise software."
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http://itmanagement.earthweb.com/entdev/article.php/3711301
Larry Ellison thrashes Red Hat
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| "At Oracle we've been in the Linux business for a year now," he said.
|
| "With the Red Hat code all we did for the first year was fix bugs. Now Oracle
| growing a lot faster than Red Hat. Red Hat's been growing too because it’s a
| growing market."
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http://www.pcmag.co.uk/vnunet/news/2203490/ellison-aims-red-hat
OpenWorld: 1,500 companies adopt Oracle Unbreakable Linux
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| Despite Oracle's fast growth, Red Hat remains the top dog in the enterprise
| Linux market, with tens of thousands of subscribers to its support business.
| During its Q1 2008 call with analysts, Red Hat CEO Matthew Szulik said it
| added "multiple of thousands of customers" in that quarter alone.
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http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&taxonomyId=89&articleId=9046978&intsrc=hm_topic
http://tinyurl.com/3djllc
Ellison touts Fusion Applications
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| Oracle CEO Larry Ellison didn't display much of his traditional flamboyance
| Wednesday at Oracle's OpenWorld conference, but he did preview the company's
| next-generation Fusion Applications and said its Unbreakable Linux offering
| has met with initial success.
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http://news.yahoo.com/s/infoworld/20071115/tc_infoworld/93428
OpenWorld: Oracle restricting app support to its own virtualization platform
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| Buried under the surface of Oracle Corp.'s Monday announcement that it plans
| to get into the virtualization market is the fact that the company won't
| support its database and many other applications if they are running on
| virtualization software from VMware Inc., Microsoft Corp. or even Red Hat
| Inc.
|
| That effectively limits enterprise users who want to run their Oracle
| applications more efficiently through virtualization to just one platform:
| Oracle's new VM.
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http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9046998&intsrc=news_ts_head
http://tinyurl.com/38yk8h
Oracle's mixed messages on "compatibility" with Red Hat Enterprise Linux
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| No offense, Oracle, but if it looks like a fork, smells like a fork, and acts
| like a fork, it's a fork, and "fully compatible" is simply not a credible
| guarantee. You can't change someone else's code and crown it "fully
| compatible."
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http://blogs.cnet.com/8301-13505_1-9772650-16.html
Oracle claims no Linux ulterior motive
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| Oracle is using LinuxWorld to try and calm concerns its Enterprise Linux and
| Unbreakable Linux Network (ULN) will fork Red Hat and fragment the Linux
| market.
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http://www.channelregister.co.uk/2007/08/08/oracle_uln_red_hat/
Oracle's got a giant Red Hat fork coming, says spaceman
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| Oracle's assault on Linux looks to take the shape of a fork in the near
| future, according to Canonical founder and Ubuntu chief Mark Shuttleworth.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/07/27/shuttleworth_oscon_ubuntu/
Is Unbreakable a long-term Linux play?
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| After initial cynicism I have been forced to rethink my opinion on a couple
| of occassions, notably Oracle's patent pledge, the naming of customers and
| the naming of partners, although I remain unconvinced that OEL is a long-term
| strategy for the company as opposed to an attempt to disrupt the market.
|
| Linux is clearly a long-term commitment. Oracle Enterprise Linux? Not sure.
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http://www.businessreviewonline.com/os/archives/2007/07/is_unbreakable_1.html
Ubuntu chief: Oracle Linux has 'tactical value'
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| Oracle has the ability to support Linux, and doing so could
| have "tactical value" for the database company, the founder
| of Ubuntu Linux--and a potential Oracle partner--said Friday.
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http://news.com.com/2100-7344_3-6128259.html?part=rss&tag=6128259&subj=news
Shuttleworth: Oracle-Ubuntu partnership only a matter of time
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| Canonical Ltd. CEO Mark Shuttleworth said a partnership with
| Oracle is no longer a matter of if, but when.
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http://searchopensource.techtarget.com/originalContent/0,289142,sid39_gci1226514,00.html
http://tinyurl.com/yht7mk
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