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Re: Oracle May Launch Its Own Version of Linux?
From: Kurt von dem Bussche <kurt () no-ip com>
Date: Mon, 17 Apr 2006 12:34:22 -0700
Being a former Oracle employee I cant see how this will be any good. They have a tendency to make products worse over time. On Mon, 2006-04-17 at 15:13 +0000, Fergie wrote:
Given Oracle's horrible security track record, I wonder if anyone would actually use it? Via Yahoo! News (Reuters). [snip] U.S. software maker Oracle Corp. is considering launching a version of the Linux operating system and has looked at buying one of the two firms dominating the technology, the Financial Times newspaper reported on Monday. The report, citing an interview with Oracle's chief executive officer Larry Ellison, said the move would redraw the software landscape and open a new front in Oracle's long rivalry with U.S. rival Microsoft Corp. It said Ellison told the newspaper that Oracle wanted to sell a full range of software that, like Microsoft, included both operating system and applications. [snip] More: http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060417/tc_nm/oracle_dc - ferg -- "Fergie", a.k.a. Paul Ferguson Engineering Architecture for the Internet fergdawg () netzero net or fergdawg () sbcglobal net ferg's tech blog: http://fergdawg.blogspot.com/ _______________________________________________ Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list.
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