Redhat taking a beating - stock opportunity here?

[Ansar Mohammed]

Agreed, 
Oracle is clearly going to come out the bad guy here. I think this is going
to do allot of damage to Oracle's perception in the Open Source world; not
as despised as SCO or M$ though.

Interesting enough though, when Checkpoint built their SecurePlatform on
RedHat (9 I think) there was not so much PR....



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> From: owner-tlug-lxSQFCZeNF4 at public.gmane.org [mailto:owner-tlug-lxSQFCZeNF4 at public.gmane.org] On Behalf Of
> Christopher Browne
> Sent: October 27, 2006 9:11 AM
> To: tlug-lxSQFCZeNF4 at public.gmane.org
> Subject: Re: [TLUG]: Redhat taking a beating - stock opportunity here?
> 
> On 10/27/06, Ansar Mohammed <ansarm-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> > They tried the (more or less) same thing with PeopleSoft. Remember in
> 2004
> > Oracle announced that they were going to buy PeopleSoft and shut down
> their
> > products.. Now who's gunna invest $m in PeopleSoft if the product is
> going
> > to die a quick death.
> 
> Ah, but part of what gives RHAT credibility in the Linux market is the
> fact that they are paying salaries for various developers of important
> Linux-related components, whether that be kernel, compilers, libraries
> (libc), and other such stuff.
> 
> If I buy services from RHAT, I know I'm sponsoring that development.
> 
> If I buy services from Oracle, I know I'm NOT sponsoring that sort of
> stuff.
> 
> That's reason to prefer to buy services from RHAT; I know they are
> contributing something to things I'd consider some "greater good."
> 
> That's only one more factor, but it is a factor...
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