Oracle May Launch Its Own Version of Linux?

["Fergie" <fergdawg () netzero net>]

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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"Fergie", a.k.a. Paul Ferguson
 Engineering Architecture for the Internet
 fergdawg () netzero net or fergdawg () sbcglobal net
 ferg's tech blog: http://fergdawg.blogspot.com/


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