Re: [LUG] Oracle Linux?

[Paul Sutton <zen14920@xxxxxxxxx>]

Having a dedicated distro that will install and set up a dedicated 
server running Oracle sounds interesting,  optimise the operating system 
to suit, however I don't understnad why they have to buy an existing 
product,  they could simply say use an existing distribution and modyify 
it to work integrate with oracle better.

Is what they have in mind something along the lines of the smaller 
distros, that pacakge mysql into a dedicated server package,  Obviously 
thats difference due to the licensing of MySQL,  if this is done right 
then the outcome should be good, But it must be dome right from the start.

Paul

Neil Williams wrote:

> On Monday 17 April 2006 3:09 pm, Keith Abraham wrote:
>  
>
> > What do you think of this..
> >
> > http://news.ft.com/cms/s/7354696c-cd86-11da-afcd-0000779e2340.html
> >    
>
> Depends if they intend to put Oracle under the GPL. Somehow I doubt it.
>
> Makes me glad Debian can't be sold to anyone. (It's volunteers only.)
> :-)
>
> Mandrake -> Mandriva, Caldera -> oblivion, SuSE -> Novell -> Oracle ?
>
> GNU/Linux needs strong commercial partners like IBM, RedHat / Ubuntu and 
> strong community partners like Debian / Fedora. Maybe Oracle will join that, 
> maybe not. In some ways, I'd prefer that Oracle do something similar to 
> Canonical.
>
> My worry is for SuSE users who may fear their distro becoming a database 
> server release and lagging behind with non-Oracle stuff like KDE or Gnome.
>
>  


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