On 2008-03-26, Subway steel <foo@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> "Roy Schestowitz" <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
> news:2915368.7E88gAM3cn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> ____/ Subway steel on Wednesday 26 March 2008 16:29 : \____
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>>>
>>> "Roy Schestowitz" <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
>>> news:1576789.7ZihCj4M11@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>>> Oracle offers clustering for Linux
>>>>
>>>> ,----[ Quote ]
>>>> | Oracle is breaking out the Linux clustering component of its Oracle
>>>> RAC
>>>> (Real
>>>> | Application Clusters) package and offering it to customers of its
>>>> Unbreakable
>>>> | Linux support program for Linux users.
>>>> `----
>>>>
>>>> http://www.infoworld.com/article/08/03/26/oracle-linux_1.html
>>>>
>>>
>>> Certainly Oracle is not setting its FOCUS on linux clusters. Being a
>>> RDBMS
>>> system their focus is going to remain on databases.
>>
>> I thought twice before typing that down for this very same reason.
>> Clearly,
>> they put a little more focus on this than they did before... and it seems
>> like
>> they pull a Sun/MySQL on Red Hat here.
>
> I think that Oracle will "focus" on Linux to the extent that it helps them
> sell Oracle licenses. Perhaps one day it will generate a nice extra revenue
> stream for them in support and services in the same way that Redhat makes
There's no "perhaps" or "one day" about it.
It already does.
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