On 3 Apr 2009, at 3:17 pm, John Hearns wrote:
2009/4/3 Robert G. Brown <[email protected]>:
There are similar questions associated with IBM. Sun provides
support
for some major tools used in Linux these days, notably open office
but
also SGE.
Don't forget MySQL
Who knows what the result of the catfight between DB2 and MySQL
would be
The death of MySQL, with any luck, and then people might be forced to
use a real database.
Sorry. A bit twitchy today. MySQL has been causing me particular
irritation over the last couple of weeks.
I agree with what you say in the main though - we should be very aware
of what could come
out of these mergers.
Maybe I'm going too far in saying this, but what would a Linux
landscape consisting of
a very few commercially supported Linuxes plus the one alternative of
Debian (plus Ubuntu)
be like?
Wouldn't bother me in the slightest. I've been avoiding the
commercial distros as much as possible for years. We switched our
entire site to Debian about four years ago, and life has become a lot
easier ever since. Fewer bugs, more openness, better management
tools. The only places where Linux admin is still a pain are the few
corners where I'm still forced to user Red Hat and its derived
distributions. Oracle being a prime example. I'll probably
eventually migrate everything to Ubuntu, especially if Oracle decide
to support that distro. Ubuntu has a a slightly more pragmatic view
of the world than some of the more extreme Debian zealots.
That said, Ubuntu being backed by a commercial organisation might
eventually lead to the same thing happening to it. At least if you go
with Debian you know that you are fairly safe from the whims of
commercial companies.
Regards,
Tim
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