Oracle to support Linux!
Last week Oracle announced one-stop support by managing an
Oracle-centric distro, announcing that they will supply 'enterprise
class' support for RedHat Linux at very competitive rates.
Larry Ellison noted the problem in his keynote:
"There is a lack of true enterprise support for the Linux
operating system. This has slowed the adoption of Linux,"
Of course,
RedHat stock plunged almost immediately:
"Their stock has lost almost 30% since the announcement
yesterday and several investment firms have downgraded their
ratings."
RedHat was not
happy:
"Oracle's support for Linux reaffirms Red Hat's technical
industry leadership and the end of proprietary Unix. It's no
accident that Red Hat was chosen
#1 in value two
years running."
One of the reasons that IBM became wildly popular back in the
1970's was because they offered one-stop support. There was no
finger-pointing, and the singular responsibility of a vendor was
very appealing. In my own experience with multiple vendors,
they have a great incentive to pass-off the problem as a database
issue, and vice-versa.
There is also the benefit of having a Linux which is optimized
for Oracle database management, much like the
Suse Linux which was optimized exclusively for Oracle.
Here at Burleson Consulting, this move will enable us to better
serve our clients, by having less finger-pointing and a single
source for both OS and database support.
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