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I find myself thinking that recent years of change in the Linux world is partially to blame on Oracle and Red Hat having a falling out. Those two used to have
by digi_owl 10y ago
I find myself thinking that recent years of change in the Linux world is partially to blame on Oracle and Red Hat having a falling out.
Those two used to have a fruitful partnership where RH suppiled the distro, and Oracle supplied the software that ran on top.
But right around the time RH released RHEL 6.0, Oracle up and forked RHEL into Oracle Linux and started offering support contracts for the whole stack. Since then RH seems to be on the warpath, tightening their control over the various sub-projects that RHEL is made of.
- blahi 10y agoBut didn't RedHat enter middleware first, snatching jboss under Oracle's nose?
- digi_owl 10y agoWell neither was established in that market at the time, afaik. But Oracle Linux was not only Oracle entering onto RH turf, but using the very FOSS that was RH life blood against them. Oracle was basically offering existing RH customers to consolidate their support contracts with Oracle rather than have the OS with RH and the database with Oracle.