Oracle's Take On Red Hat Linux 165
darthcamaro writes "For nearly three years, Oracle has had its own version of Red Hat Enterprise Linux, claiming the two versions are essentially the same thing. But are they really? As it turns out, there are a few things on which Oracle and Red Hat do not see eye-to-eye, including file systems and virtualization. The article quotes Wim Coekaerts, Oracle's director of Linux engineering, saying, 'A lot of people think Oracle is doing Enterprise Linux as just basically a rip off of Red Hat but that's not what this is about. ... This is about a support program, and wanting to offer quality Linux OS support to customers that need it. The Linux distribution part is there just to make sure people can get a freely available Linux operating system that is fully supported.'"
ORACLE (Score:5, Funny)
Re:ORACLE (Score:5, Funny)
Or reading it backwards "EL CARO", translated from spanish "The Expensive"
Quality Support? (Score:3, Funny)
Oracle can't even give quality support for its own software. Why on Earth would it think it can give quality support for someone else's software?
Re:Um, (Score:5, Funny)
This is basically like someone trying to justify that Linux Mint is some grand new distribution when it is nothing more then Ubuntu with a few extra tweaks and drivers added.
Which, in itself, is a lot like someone trying to imply that Ubuntu is a distribution when it's nothing more than a snapshot of Debian sid with a few extra tweaks and drivers added.
Re:ORACLE (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Cluster filesystem clusterf*ck (Score:3, Funny)
And IBM's GPFS pisses over both GFS and OCFS from orbit.