RE: redhat/oracle

This just came in on the suse-oracle-announce mail list:

>Dear SUSE Oracle customers,
>
>SUSE LINUX is to be aquired by Novell:
><http://www.novell.com/news/press/archive/2003/11/pr03069.html>
>
>We will of course continue our Enterprise Server product line and our
>close relationship with Oracle!
>
>
>Regards,
>Michael Hasenstein

Cheers,
Mark Stahlke
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Sent: Monday, November 03, 2003 9:59 PM
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I'll try my luck with SuSE. It apparently has IBM support. Red Hat is starting to act badly and brings memories of one former Xenix reseller which made fortune by selling operating system written by IBM.

On 2003.11.03 23:24, Jared Still wrote:
> This is news to me. RH will no longer let you download Linux for free?
>
> hmmm....
>
> Sure enough, look at http://www.redhat.com/apps/commerce/rhel/ws/
>
> The cheapest version is $179.00 US. Looks like the next version
> for me will be Gentoo.
>
> Jared
>
> On Mon, 2003-11-03 at 17:54, Joe Testa wrote:
> > Well with RH latest ordeal of jumping out of simple ISOs and basically
> > no more free software, what is oracle's stand on running on RH?, the
> > paid version only from now on and those linux users out there, what are
> > WE going to do?
> >
> > Looking to see if i need to spend money before end of year for tax
> > write-off :)
> >
> > joe
> >
> >
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