[nflug] Oracle may launch Linux version

[joshj at linuxmail.org]

Thus spake Jonathan Skulski on Tue, 18 Apr 2006

> I'm suprised to hear that Novell is SuSE. I forgot about that.
>
> I just was assuming that Oracle would put out some intensely tuned
> distro for databases. I wonder if they really are planning on doing
> anything with desktop? Is this a lateral move?
>
> Either way, they'll probably forget to include startup scripts and
> you'd have to write those yourself. And pay 5,000 dollars for the
> privalage. Per CPU.

And they'll probably forget to include support for character fields
larger than 2k and the ability to return the lastInsertId()...

-josh

>
> jsk
>
> On 4/17/06, Joe <josephj at main.nc.us> wrote:
>> Now that  you mention it, I remember the sale, but the Novell-Suse
>> connection didn't stick in my mind.
>>
>> Joe
>>
>> Darin Perusich wrote:
>>> novell bought suse a few years ago so novell linux is suse. they tried
>>> to change the name from "suse linux" to "novell linux" but realized
>>> that was a mistake and have since reverted back to using the "suse
>>> linux" branding for all of their products.
>>>
>>> i use SuSE on nearly all of my linux systems with the exception of
>>> debian for select applications. i switched from redhat because i
>>> wasn't about to pay for patches and such and i refused to use their
>>> playground/testbed fedora in production. i couldn't be happier.
>>>
>>> Joe wrote:
>>>> I don't really know anything about Novell Linux.  Anyone have any
>>>> experience/comments on it?  I know they have/had an OS called
>>>> Netware, but that's about it.
>>>>
>>>> Joe
>>>>
>>>
>>>
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