Will Oracle Kill Red Hat?

Tue, 24 Apr 2007 16:45:00 EDT

The Oracle move is strategically brilliant. Oracle gains an almost-instant, solid foothold in open source, which is one of the fastest-growing software market segments in the world, and which has extremely broad appeal to users in every geographical and industry market. Oracle also gains commercially-leveragable access to a wealth of leading-edge technology and users without significant capital investment. It needs to train and deploy/redeploy its technical services resources to support Red Hat Linux, of course, but resource software training and deployment is typically considered a cost of doing business among enterprise software vendors.

i-Technology Viewpoint: Will "The Oracle Event" Kill Red Hat?

Mon, 15 Jan 2007 07:30:00 EST

Due to the terms of its open source license, Red Hat cannot effectively prevent Oracle from licensing, reselling, and supporting its version of Linux. In effect, Red Hat - and almost any other open source software developer or distributor - provides well-positioned competitors, especially large IT 'Master Brands' such as Oracle, with the ability to compete directly, and possibly to put them out of business.

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Will Oracle Kill Red Hat?

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