http://www.oracle.com/ebusinessnetwork/

For those with good network connections there will be a live streaming
presentation tomorrow at 10:30 a.m PDT/17:30 GMT.

Larry Ellison (Chairman and CEO of Oracle), Russ Holt (VP of Dell) and
Matthew Szulik (CEO of Red Hat) will all 'be there'.

Three things:

First: Don't watch the above expecting lots of technical detail about
Oracle and/or Linux.

Second: The Oracle corporate campus looks like Antarctica there are so
many penguin posters and such around. I remember a conversation that
maddog, Rob Anderson and I had with Linus about 7 years ago (maybe
more?) during an excursion to one of the DEC offices. Linus said that he
would like to have a penguin 'like Opus' as the mascot for Linux. I
replied that I had a friend who was a really talented artist and he
could come up with some pictures. That friend (who I still know) was
(and is!) a little lazy so he never got around to it.  His artwork could
have been famous!

Third: I remember the day (about 6 years ago) when a certain new Oracle
employee stood up at a GNHLUG meeting and said those fateful words:
"Oracle will never release on Linux, they just don't understand free
software!".  How things change!

Rich
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The above comments are mine and are not any kind of official information
from Oracle.

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