RE: Is Oracle going to be an operating system?

  • From: "Richard J. Goulet" <rgoulet@xxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: "oracle-l" <oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Fri, 17 Nov 2006 10:17:55 -0500

I have not heard anything about Oracle taking over RH, partnering with
them yes, but not a take over.  RH has been toying with databases for
some time.  Their CD's use to contain MySql and PostGreSql (which I
believe they still do) and for a while there they were supplying the
RedHat DB which was a modified version of PostGreSql.  It didn't fly
very far, so a link to Oracle is a good thing for them.  Come to think
of it I believe 10G Express Edition is on their CD's now too.  The
partnering thing today is a reality.  Call OTS with a problem & if it's
RedHat related you'll end up talking to a RedHat support tech.
 

  
Dick Goulet, Senior Oracle DBA

45 Bartlett St  Marlborough, Ma 01752, USA
Tel.: 508.573.1978 |Fax:  508.229.2019 | Cell:508.742.5795 

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[mailto:oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Paul Drake
Sent: Friday, November 17, 2006 9:18 AM
To: orcl@xxxxxxxxxxx
Cc: oracle-l
Subject: Re: Is Oracle going to be an operating system?




On 11/16/06, Bob <orcl@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: 

        I was in a meeting today with some colleagues giving trip
reports from
        open world and apparently from what they seemed to have heard
was that
        Oracle was going to "take over Linux". Now we all know that's
not going 
        to happen, but the tone was that Oracle was really going to get
into the
        operating system business... become "grid like"... ;-)
        
        I certainly could see oracle offering their own version on Linux
to run 
        a "database" server but the message that was presented to me was
Oracle
        would offer - customize & support a Linux operating system to
run java
        based applications- totally independent of database software 
        
        In other words, "oracle" is not just a database anymore!
        
        I know that with MS taking Suse and oracle trying to knock off
RH



Bob,

Those were 2 events were press announcements. 
Did anything actually change?
I think not.
Larry got to exercise his ego and Ballmer got to mess with the fearful.
Big deal.

Paul 



        - the
        two companies could offer "enterprise level of support" to an
enterprise
        deployment of Linux - is this believable? ... I dont think so
;-)
        <Im getting in the conversation late though...>
        
        What's the consensuses - current mindset - believability of this
group
        of professionals?
        
        Long term vision or smokescreen?
        
        
        Thanks
        Bob
        
        --
        "Oracle error messages being what they are, do not 
        highlight the correct cause of fault, but will identify
        some other error located close to where the real fault lies."
        
        --
        //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l 
        
        
        


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