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OpenWorld This time last year, Oracle's Unbreakable Linux Network launched at OpenWorld to much fanfare. It was supposed to be a Red Hat killer. It has had as much impact upon Red Hat has a dead sheep. Larry Ellison says this is going to change.
During his OpenWorld keynote this year, the Oracle CEO said the company means business next year. Oracle VM server virtualization, launched this week, will "differentiate ourselves from Red Hat", he proclaimed. And "going into the second year we will have sales with support and engineering, and we will grow faster."
Once again, Ellison stressed switchabilty: "If you are a Red Hat customer, it's very easy to swap from a Red Hat system to an Oracle system and from Red Hat support to Oracle support, and a number of customers have done that."
Explaining his company's inability to poach customers from Red Hat this last year, Ellison said Oracle had spent 12 months "getting the service right and offering right." Right.
He claimed 1,500 enterprises are using "Oracle Linux or Oracle support for Linux. Not only do we have a lot of customers, we have a lot of partners."
ULN launched at OpenWorld 2006 amid dire prophecies of Red Hat's death, and much name dropping from Ellison.
Despite headlines claiming companies that like Yahoo! have switched to ULN, the reality is that organizations are not switching wholesale, but are putting individual or groups of servers on the network. In sales and marketing though, a customer win, is a customer win is a customer win, so shout it loud.®
COMMENTS
@Dr Mouse
"Virii"? I keep seeing that word. What is a virius?
If you're going to switch from RHEL, it ain't to Oracle...
@Richard Lloyd
No company can live with "support from the community"!
How many "would love to be a Hacker" guyz have you seen in the community forums giving answers they don't even understand?
Honest, the amount of threads which contain bs solutions, even if they work, is horrendous!!!
just search for "rm" in the forums and you will see what I mean .... dangerous advice is being given by guyz who don't understand the problem or their cure! The problem is that this bad advice is then available in google and spreading .... don't get me wrong, I love/use linux, but community support? come on!
If you're going to switch from RHEL, it ain't to Oracle...
Oracle's dubious "Unbreakable Linux" might have had some merit if it wasn't for that fact that there's a far cheaper (and some would argue significantly better than UL) clone to RHEL already out there, namely CentOS.
For businesses, there's only 2 sensible choices - ether buy RHEL and get proper support/cerification or get CentOS for free and use the community for suport (or your own in-house expertise). Oracle's Linux is a half-baked mongrel that deserves no-one's time or money, IMHO.
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