[Sheflug] CentOS

[Richard Ibbotson <richard@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/07/20/oracle_centos_stealth_attack/

Did some work with Lance Davis on some Linux shows at a local football 
ground.  This might be of some interest to you...

" Having tried, and failed, to kill Red Hat Linux with Unbreakable 
Linux, Oracle is now sneaking up on CentOS.  Larry Ellison's database 
giant is now touting a piece of code it claims will let you convert 
your CentOS machine into Oracle Linux systems with no strings 
attached.  Well, there is one catch: switching actually provides 
little discernible advantage over CentOS, except the opportunity to 
give Oracle your money for its support.  And it's a prospect CentOS 
users are widely turning down, saying they won't switch to Oracle 
Linux because they don't trust Oracle and also because of the 
company's poor standing as a member of the open-source community. 
Oracle's Larry Ellison launched Unbreakable Linux in 2006 to squeals 
of delight â his own â at OpenWorld, with the plan to swap out Red Hat 
Enterprise Linux by offering binary compatibility wrapped with 
Oracle's support. Six years on, Oracle has 7,000 Oracle Linux 
customers.  "

-- 
Richard
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