RE: redhat/oracle

Hope this is not getting too off topic, but I thought this may also be of interest to those reading this thread:

http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/33770.html

"Novell bags SuSE for $210m

Linux company SuSE was today acquired by Novell in a $210 million all-cash deal.

The transaction is subject to regulatory approval and the winding up of shareholder agreements. Novell expects the transaction to close by the end of its first fiscal quarter (January 2004)....."

-----Original Message-----
Rodd Holman
Sent: 04 November 2003 14:59
To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L

No. But the free download of RH9 looks to end in March 04. Then there will only be the three pay versions starting at USD $179.00. All support for previous versions is GONE. Sounds like another Micro$oft in the birthing stage.

Rodd

On Tue, 2003-11-04 at 03:24, Mark Leith wrote:
> OK, this is even more confusing to me. According to the following page:
>
> http://www.redhat.com/download/products.html
>
> "You can download Red Hat Linux for free from http://ftp.redhat.com or
> ftp://ftp.redhat.com. To access the Red Hat FTP site, use anonymous as you
> user name and your email address as the password."
>
> I actually downloaded Red Hat 9 on Friday. That download (in iso format)
is
> available from the above FTP (which is pretty overloaded lately), and also
> available from:
>
>

ftp://ftp.mirror.ac.uk/sites/ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/9/en/iso/i386/
>
> So, do I have to pay a license to use it?
>
> BTW, ftp://ftp.mirror.ac.uk/sites/ has to be one of the best FTP sites in
> the world - bookmark it! ;)
>
> Cheers
>
> Mark
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> Mladen Gogala
> Sent: 04 November 2003 04:59
> To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
>
>
> 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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