Direct attack to RH / SLES. Pity for Redhat. http://www.brighttalk.com/webcast/26053
the talk will be webcasted on 24th March 2011. hmm https://edelivery.oracle.com/EPD/GetUserInfo/get_form?caller=LinuxWelcome On Thu, Mar 17, 2011 at 12:36 PM, [email protected] <[email protected]> wrote: > The real issue here is not the kernel per se as Red Hat contributes the most > to upstream development of the kernel, ever. > The real issue are the backports and patches to the vanilla kernel that > ships with RHEL 6 (2.6.32) that enhance the performance, reliability and > other related application compatibility that Red Hat does to their > customers. And some of the backports are from the quite recent kernel and > the commitment from Red Hat to support it for the period of 10 years. > Leechers such as Oracle and Novell (not SUSE, its Novell) are more > interested in that in order for them to get the customers of Red Hat and the > ability to support RHEL products. > It has nothing to do with Red Hat going proprietary (they did release the > RHEL 6 kernel as a tarball), but more into making Oracle and Novell honest > by shipping and compete with their own products and offerings rather than > selling support for their competitors product. We never heard MS selling > support contract for Oracle database, so whats the difference here? > -wariola- > > On Thu, Mar 17, 2011 at 9:29 AM, [email protected] > <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> My title is just a nasty parody. >> As of my readings, Oracle seems "dissatisfied" with it's previous >> partner RH and come out with their own distro instead. >> >> I'm not sure how much this unbreakable Linux boxset's pricing, but >> having Oracle as the backup, serious users may have confidence with >> them. >> >> But to be safe and peace of mind, simply pay for not so cheap Red Hat. >> >> This ripped off and rebrand with their own distro is familiar, yes? :) >> >> On Thu, Mar 17, 2011 at 9:21 AM, Sharuzzaman Ahmat Raslan >> <[email protected]> wrote: >> > Nope. Red Hat is not evil. >> > >> > The real evil is Oracle, who takes Red Hat Enterprise Linux, cherry pick >> > which patch that Red Hat had provided in its SRPMS, and add new patch >> > that >> > will make their database run fast. Rename that distro to Oracle >> > Enterprise >> > Linux, and charge the customer very high for support service. >> > >> > So, their job just to determine which patch is suitable, and then charge >> > for >> > profit. So easy. >> > >> > And why Red Hat should make it easy to them to cherry pick the patch? >> > Red >> > Hat work so hard, but in the end their client moved to Oracle Enterprise >> > Linux. Give them a whole code dump, and let them figure it out by >> > themselves. >> > >> > Still GPL compliant, and CentOS won't care. They are just rebuilder. >> > >> > >> > >> > On Thu, Mar 17, 2011 at 9:12 AM, [email protected] >> > <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> >> >> Fact: >> >> >> >> >> >> http://www.zdnet.com/blog/open-source/red-hat-turns-on-oracle-and-other-red-hat-linux-clone-makers/8485 >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> -- >> >> Join #ISOC [Internet Society] today and create connections with >> >> Internet Users around the world! >> >> >> >> Simplified Link: http://goo.gl/xmG90 >> >> _______________________________________________ >> >> general mailing list >> >> [email protected] >> >> http://lists.foss.org.my/mailman/listinfo/general >> > >> > >> > >> > -- >> > Sharuzzaman Ahmat Raslan >> > >> > _______________________________________________ >> > general mailing list >> > [email protected] >> > http://lists.foss.org.my/mailman/listinfo/general >> > >> > >> >> >> >> -- >> Join #ISOC [Internet Society] today and create connections with >> Internet Users around the world! >> >> Simplified Link: http://goo.gl/xmG90 >> _______________________________________________ >> general mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.foss.org.my/mailman/listinfo/general > > > > -- > .: war|ola :. > Use Fedora Linux for better computing experience > http://fedoraproject.org > -- Join #ISOC [Internet Society] today and create connections with Internet Users around the world! Simplified Link: http://goo.gl/xmG90 _______________________________________________ general mailing list [email protected] http://lists.foss.org.my/mailman/listinfo/general
