Will Oracle Linux Kill Red Hat? By Sean Michael Kerner

Reporter’s Notebook: So Oracle isn’t going to create its own Linux based on Ubuntu to fight Red Hat. Oracle is going to have its own Linux based on Red Hat’s own binaries to fight Red Hat.Sort of like using a person’s own hands to choke them with.

Officially though, Red Hat is taking the same opinion that I expressed last week about the whole Oracle Linux issue. Namely that Oracle’s move is good for the open source market as a whole.

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