Red Hat's early response:
http://www.redhat.com/promo/unfakeable/
On another note, Fedora Core 6 ISO's for i386 are available from
the HOSEF mirrors site here:
http://mirrors.hosef.org/fedora/core/6/i386/iso/
~ Julian
--- Jim Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Oracle plans to offer $99/year
On Oct 26, 2006, at 12:03 AM, Julian Yap wrote:
Red Hat's early response:
http://www.redhat.com/promo/unfakeable/
I smell panic.
Its very nearly a response I'd expect from a proprietary (closed
source) software vendor.
Moreover, Oracle has a very large direct salesforce and a metric
On Thu, 2006-10-26 at 02:05 -1000, Jim Thompson wrote:
On Oct 26, 2006, at 12:03 AM, Julian Yap wrote:
Red Hat's early response:
http://www.redhat.com/promo/unfakeable/
I smell panic.
Probably. But better this issue crop up now instead of 5 years down the
track. It sure does
On Thu, 2006-10-26 at 02:05 -1000, Jim Thompson wrote:
Question: You're a Fortune 1000 company... you want to deploy some
linux, but you require rock-solid support from a company
with real assets and a real reputation. Your choices are:
Red Hat, Canonical (Ubuntu), Sun (Ubuntu), Novel or
Peter Besenbruch wrote:
On Thu, 2006-10-26 at 02:05 -1000, Jim Thompson wrote:
Question: You're a Fortune 1000 company... you want to deploy some
linux, but you require rock-solid support from a company
with real assets and a real reputation. Your choices are:
Red Hat, Canonical (Ubuntu),
Oracle plans to offer $99/year (two cpu) support to current Red Hat
customers. This is about 1/2 the RHAT rate for the same offering:
http://www.informationweek.com/software/showArticle.jhtml?
articleID=193402336subSection=Operating+Systems
RHAT is down over 16% (currently $16.33, lower
