On 4/17/06, Chuck Davis
This whole discussion is nonsense. What is the motive? If Oracle wanted a Linux distro why not grab openSuse and start adding their goodies? Why pay millions for Novell? Or Redhat? I don't see it happening. Maybe testing the waters to see what the reaction to an Oracle distro might be but I don't think they're going to buy Novell for SUSE Linux -- maybe OpenExchange or something but not Linux which already is so readily available.
That's my $.02.
Chuck
Oracle is a very expensive DB, so if a customer is spending $100K for the DB they would probably appreciate getting a quality Linux distro thrown in for another couple thousand. If Oracle decides they want to distribute a Linux Distro then I suspect they will buy a company that has all the support infrastructure in place. Why would they want to recreate that particular wheel. Greg -- Greg Freemyer The Norcross Group Forensics for the 21st Century