In article <1234425.E94kkkZrqz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
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> CentOS The Red Hat Clone
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> | The release of the free, community-based CentOS 5 Enterprise Linux so
> | soon after the RHEL 5 release is hardly a surprise; the same thing
> | happened with RHEL 4 two years ago. Nor does Red Hat consider CentOS
> | a competitor, but rather a distribution that fills a need. The
> | company also said CentOS will help it grow its business.
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> http://www.internetnews.com/dev-news/article.php/3671841
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> Retelling the untold story [About Oracle's Unbreakable Linux]
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> | Oracle didn't decide to choose Red Hat Enterprise Linux. We decided
> | to choose the most popular distribution already in use by our
> | customers.
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> http://blogs.oracle.com/mikeolson/2007/04/12#a33
>
There's this amazing shift from companies sueing each other to death, to
cooperation and mutual support.
Unless I'm blind on some aspect of the industry, it started with Open
Source and got a gigantic explosive boost from Linux.
It's incredible to see.
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