Hi All, Just got to read this. Be interesting to know the thoughts of the community on this. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Gartner's First Take: Oracle's 'Unbreakable Linux' Will Threaten Red Hat Sponsored by: Oracle Corporation ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Download this release from Gartner to get a brief run-down of how Oracle's release of the new "Unbreakable Linux" will bring significant changes for the open source community. According to Gartner, this new service may significantly threaten the customer base of Red Hat.
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Koustubha Kale wrote:
Hi All, Just got to read this. Be interesting to know the thoughts of the community on this.
i haven't read the article (no i am not registering for bitpipe and no i also do not intend on using bugmenot), but here is what i am aware of.
Oracle's UL is primarily based on RHEL SRPMS though they do borrow a bit from CentOS as well. There is an active discussion on the centos-devel list for this: http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.centos.devel/1404/focus=1404
From my point of view: Based on their past records, i wouldn't trust Oracle on security. A company that can't provide timely patches to their flagship product is not going to do much for their non-flagship (read: released to soothe egos) products.
BTW, they are already lagging behind on security patches.
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