Yankee Group: Time Is Ripe For Oracle Linux
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| 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.
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| Yankee Group research fellow Laura DiDio estimates Red Hat already
| owns between 75 percent and 80 percent of the commercial open-source
| distribution market.
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http://www.techweb.com/wire/software/189602096
Mandatory background:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laura_Didio
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| An example of her opinion on how Open Source Software is handled shows
| in this remark (quoted from a phone interview from her home in
| Massachusetts): "The thing about Linux is, you can talk about a free,
| open operating system all you want, but you can't take that idea of free
| and open and put it into a capitalist system and maintain it as though
| it is some kind of hippie commune or ashram, because if you can do it
| like that, at that point I'm like, 'Pass the hookah please!'" [1]
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| Even recently, after admitting that a SCO victory in their case against
| IBM seemed like an extreme longshot, Didio said, "There is a larger
| issue, though: Even if the SCO case gets dismissed entirely, it does
| not remove the copyright cloud hanging over Linux and open source." [2]
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| Unsurprisingly, Linux advocates have in response heavily criticised
| DiDio. Typical criticisms are a lack of formal Computer Science
| qualifications and promoting studies funded by Microsoft; frequently
| this has resulted in questioning of her integrity and her being
| characterised as "a Microsoft shill".
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