[OpenSUSE] Oracle looks into buying Novell
Hey, just saw this on Slashdot. http://linux.slashdot.org/linux/06/04/17/1350239.shtml Is good or bad, I am not sure how Oralce is on Open Source. Payne -- Do you know why we fall Master Wayne...so we can learn to get up. Alfred - Batman Begins
Chuck Payne wrote:
Hey, just saw this on Slashdot.
http://linux.slashdot.org/linux/06/04/17/1350239.shtml
Is good or bad, I am not sure how Oralce is on Open Source.
but they say (from what source?) Red hat is first and Novell is second on Linux Distributions... may be in enterprises jdd -- http://www.dodin.net http://dodin.org/galerie_photo_web/expo/index.html http://lucien.dodin.net http://fr.susewiki.org/index.php?title=Gérer_ses_photos
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Chuck Payne wrote:
Hey, just saw this on Slashdot. http://linux.slashdot.org/linux/06/04/17/1350239.shtml Is good or bad, I am not sure how Oralce is on Open Source.
IMHO it would be terrible news.
Oracle is not really a business that understands OpenSource (but so
wasn't Novell).
Though, my biggest gripe with it would be:
- - Oracle is way too large as a business, the Linux distribution would be
a very minor spot in it
- - the reputation of Oracle in the Linux and FOSS world.. c'mon... it's
already not always easy with Novell... but do you see yourself at an OSS
event to promote "Oracle Linux" ?
Anyway, there's not much influence we can take on such topics ;-)
So we'll just have to see what happens and either move on elsewhere or
live with it. Who knows, maybe it would be a positive move for us, as
SUSE Linux users and as a community around it (I doubt it, but it's
quite likely that I'm wrong).
And it's just rumors, rumors, rumors. Slashdot isn't a reliable source
by any means, but well... it's not that it's unlikely, Oracle has been
on the shopping spree for some time now and they're not going to stop
any time soon.
Wait and see, but don't hold your breath for it ;)
cheers
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-o) Pascal Bleser http://linux01.gwdg.de/~pbleser/
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On Mon, Apr 17, 2006 at 12:01:32PM -0400, Chuck Payne wrote:
Hey, just saw this on Slashdot.
http://linux.slashdot.org/linux/06/04/17/1350239.shtml
Is good or bad, I am not sure how Oralce is on Open Source.
As I said on Slashdot http://hardware.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=183316&cid=15142498 FTFA: Oracle *had* considered buying Novell Inc The way I read it, it means: We looked at buying Novell, but instead will be launching our own Linux distribution. Oh and they are "considering" their own distro. So to sum the article up: business as usual. Absolute no decisions are taken and most likely nothing will happen. If this were about Microsoft, the whole article would be called FUD. Move along, nothing to see here. houghi -- Nutze die Zeit. Sie ist das Kostbarste, was wir haben, denn es ist unwiederbringliche Lebenszeit. Leben ist aber mehr als Werk und Arbeit, und das Sein wichtiger als das Tun - Johannes Müller-Elmau
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