[funsec] Oracle May Launch Its Own Version of Linux?

[Kurt von dem Bussche]

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
> 
> 
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