Oracle’s Branded Version of Linux
Rumors about Oracle unveiling their own branded version of Linux based on the Red Hat Distro are starting to surface early this morning. Supposedly, the announcement will be made today at LinuxWorld.
What does this mean? For Oracle, providing greater support and the ability to offer top-to-bottom stack is good for its customers. This also means Oracle will be competing with Red Hat and Novell.
If competing with Novell, this will be a bad thing. Novell has been struggling for a long time and this move by Oracle will just make things difficult for an already struggling company. Utah County could begin feeling the effects of this market move by Oracle in the near future in the forms of layoffs, etc.
What does this mean for Open Source? While it’s not a consolidation, it might feel like it in the market and could eventually mean the acquisition of other Open Source companies in this space — heck, Oracle’s entry could mean the eventual acquisition of Red Hat itself.
It’ll be interesting to see what happens from all of this.
In the meantime, I’m still on Debian but would really like to try UBUNTU, which I hear is much more friendly than Debian. At work, I work on a Windows box, but I have Cygwin loaded on it with all of the Unix commands and utilities that I’ve grown to love — I’m not totaly anti-windows — there are (=/-) to any operating system. Cygwin is really nice, though, and makes the experience on being on a Windows machine a lot less painful.
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