At around 28/10/06 3:28 pm, raghu wrote: > On 10/27/06, ravi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> I do not follow stocks at all and I am not much interested in Oracle, so >> perhaps you can tell us more about Oracle's announcement? Last I heard >> Ellison was making noises about releasing his own flavour of Linux, >> amidst rumours of Oracle acquiring RedHat, along with Oracle's advances >> towards other distros like Ubuntu. > > I think this is the development Michael is referring to. > http://technocrat.net/d/2006/10/26/9562 > > Oracle recently announced that they would support RedHat Linux for > enterprises at half the price of RedHat subscriptions. It essentially seems > like a price war launched by Oracle against RedHat. RedHat stock got > hammered after the announcement by like 20%. > > A look at the chart shows that RHAT price dropped off a cliff earlier this > week: http://finance.google.com/finance?q=RHAT >
Ah, thanks for the info. Here's an opinion: http://www.linux.com/article.pl?sid=06/10/26/174210 --ravi
