Comments on: Sending the penguins out with a hot foot

perspective CNET News.com's Charles Cooper says Larry Ellison's open-source move is part of a bigger transformation at Oracle.

[ejevo]

Kill Red Hat?

Wouldn't Oracle want to co-exist with Red Hat in this adventure? If Oracle kills off Red Hat, who picks up the pieces of the RH Linux code? I'd assume Oracle simply wants to share RH's lunch, not steal it and starve RH in the process.

[itworker--2008]

RE: Kill RedHat

Yep, they'd love to kill RH and replace everything with thier own distro, along with all the service contracts!!!

If Novell was on the ball 6-7years ago, there would have been a RH

[fred dunn]

Kill Microsoft Longhorn Server....Please....

If MS has as much "big brother" activation crap in Longhorn server then I hope that Oracle Kills them on it.
I'm not a big fan of Oracle but I have become less a fan of Microsoft since they integrated the EULA from hell in Vista.

[Broward Horne]

Linux Meme

Doesn't bode well for the Linux desktop future.

http://www.realmeme.com/roller/page/realmeme?entry=linux_meme

[unapersson]

maybe you're using the wrong keywords

http://www.google.com/trends?q=vista%2Cubuntu

looks like the Linux desktop future is growing just fine.

[qwerty75]

Much ado about nothing

Minus the temporary drop in stock prices, this is non-news.

Who in their right mind would switch to a 3rd party to support a certified enterprise product?

[kevinclosson]

Unbreakable Linux 2.0

("We've got the operating system, we've got the middleware, we've got the database and we've got the applications.")

...but they don't have the operating system. they have a copy of a copy..and not a copy of windows,AIX, Solaris.

...I invite readers to my blog where I discuss this and other topics such as the patent-related ramifications of this move by Oracle at

kevinclosson.wordpress.com

http://kevinclosson.wordpress.com/2006/10/27/unbreakable-linux-theft-of-patented-technology/