__/ [ Jim ] on Friday 07 July 2006 19:13 \__
> John Bailo wrote:
>
>> Wow -- even rabid M$ supporters The Yankee Group are jumping ship to
>> Linux?! Laura DiDio follows the money...
>>
>> http://ddj.com/dept/database/189602191?cid=RSSfeed_DDJ_DataBase
>>
>> "The time could be right for Oracle to launch a line of Linux products,
>> suggests an analyst firm.
>> Oracle Corp. building or buying its own Linux stack offers possibilities
>> that would allow the company to compete with established open-source
>> market leaders Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Novell SUSE Linux, according
>> to an analyst.
>>
>> Yankee Group research fellow Laura DiDio estimates Red Hat already owns
>> between 75 percent and 80 percent of the commercial open-source
>> distribution market. "
>
> ./me takes anything written by DiDio with a LARGE BUCKET OF SALT.
This is old news. My guess is that the message delivered is that Linux was
commercialised. This could be seen as a subversive delivery of
disinformation.
Best wishes,
Roy
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