On Thu, 2006-10-26 at 02:05 -1000, Jim Thompson wrote: > On Oct 26, 2006, at 12:03 AM, Julian Yap wrote: > > Red Hat's early response: > > > > http://www.redhat.com/promo/unfakeable/ > > I smell panic.
Probably. But better this issue crop up now instead of 5 years down the track. It sure does complicate the Linux landscape. > Oracles market cap is nearly 26 X that of Red Hat. > ORCL: 96.74 Billion > RHAT: 3.73 Billion RHAT's around 2.8 Billion now. Worse would be an Oracle buy out of Red Hat. > Meanwhile, any customer in a big sales situation with Red Hat now has > a benchmark to force deep, deep discounts. This would probably annoy Red Hat the most. > Question: You're a Fortune 1000 company... you want to deploy some > linux, but you require rock-solid support from a company > with real assets and a real reputation. Your choices are: > > Red Hat, Canonical (Ubuntu), Sun (Ubuntu), Novel or Oracle. > > Who do you choose? I wouldn't say that Oracle has proven anything with their Linux support. > If you're a current Oracle, PeopleSoft, Siebel customer, its not RedHat. That's mostly the advantage of dealing with the one vendor. ~ Julian