And to think, pundits have asked why PolyServe doesn't open source
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If Linux is in your future, I hope you really really like Oracle support :-)

http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20060711-7231.html

"Red Hat is too small and does not do a very good job of supporting [its customers]. ... The great thing about open source, the most interesting thing to me is the intellectual property. ... We can just take Red Hat's intellectual property and make it ours, they just don't have it."

Ellison's attitude isn't all that surprising, since he made similar statements about JBoss following Red Hat's acquisition of the Java middleware company in April:

"Why didn't we buy JBoss? Because we don't have to - if it ever got good enough we'd just take the intellectual property - just like Apache - embed it in our fusion middleware suite, and we're done."

Kevin Closson
Chief Architect, Oracle Database Solutions
PolyServe, Inc
kevinc@polyserve.com
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