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Re: Is Oracle going to be an operating system?

From: Paul Drake <bdbafh_at_gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 17 Nov 2006 09:17:35 -0500
Message-ID: <910046b40611170617m79abab1ak5a768bc5de9d62e3@mail.gmail.com>


On 11/16/06, Bob <orcl_at_comcast.net> wrote:
>
> I was in a meeting today with some colleagues giving trip reports from
> open world and apparently from what they seemed to have heard was that
> Oracle was going to "take over Linux". Now we all know that's not going
> to happen, but the tone was that Oracle was really going to get into the
> operating system business... become "grid like"... ;-)
>
> I certainly could see oracle offering their own version on Linux to run
> a "database" server but the message that was presented to me was Oracle
> would offer - customize & support a Linux operating system to run java
> based applications- totally independent of database software
>
> In other words, "oracle" is not just a database anymore!
>
> I know that with MS taking Suse and oracle trying to knock off RH

Bob,

Those were 2 events were press announcements. Did anything actually change?
I think not.
Larry got to exercise his ego and Ballmer got to mess with the fearful. Big deal.

Paul

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