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Oracle ‘Supports’ Red Hat Linux


By Alex Handy
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November 15, 2006 —  (Page 1 of 2)
SAN FRANCISCO — The rumored Oracle takeover of Red Hat obviously failed. While the murmurs from the valley insinuated that Oracle was considering a buyout of the Linux maker all year long, at the Oracle OpenWorld conference held here in late October, Larry Ellison made an announcement that could position Oracle as a buyer in the future. Oracle, said Ellison, now offers full enterprise support contracts for Red Hat Linux users, regardless of whether or not those users are Oracle customers.

The move is a slap in the face of Red Hat’s support department, and a threat to Red Hat’s support revenue, analysts and observers agree. Oracle’s support options are both cheaper and more diverse than those offered by Red Hat, according to Oracle’s announcement.

Oracle also said that it would harvest each new release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux, remove all trademarked images and files from the open-source software, then post the resulting disc images online for free distribution. That’s something that some other Linux distributions—such as Debian and Gentoo—already offer, but which Red Hat has never provided.

Oracle representatives at the conference frequently stated that Red Hat was the most commonly used Linux distribution in their customers’ environments. However, no one from the company would cite any statistics.

In his keynote address, Ellison said there are some issues that are slowing the adoption of Linux. “Maybe the most serious problem is the lack of true enterprise support for the Linux operating system.” That, said Ellison, means catering phone and patch support toward customers who can’t move their mission-critical systems to the latest and greatest revision of the operating system. It also means having the resources and people to answer questions around the clock, he added.

Ellison stated that his company had been pushing Linux for six years, and saw little uptake. Offering support and service contracts direct from Oracle, he said, would be the quickest way to expand enterprise Linux use.




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