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    <pubDate>Fri, 24 May 2013 12:53:56 -0400</pubDate>


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        <title>Why Oracle Linux is a Good Thing</title>
        <link>http://www.theserverside.com/discussions/thread.tss?thread_id=42818</link>

        

        
            <description><![CDATA[There is a wrong perception that large companies don't adopt Linux because they prefer commercial offerings. This is only half right.  It's not that they like commercial software for its own sake.  They know and understand the benefits of open-source...]]></description>
        

        <pubDate>Mon, 25 Feb 2013 15:14:56 -0500</pubDate>

        

        <jf:creationDate>Fri, 27 Oct 2006 11:46:34 -0400</jf:creationDate>
        <jf:modificationDate>Mon, 25 Feb 2013 15:14:56 -0500</jf:modificationDate>
        <jf:date>Feb 25, 2013</jf:date>
        <jf:author>Joseph Ottinger</jf:author>
        <jf:replyCount>24</jf:replyCount>
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        <title>Is it?</title>
        <link>http://www.theserverside.com/discussions/thread.tss?thread_id=42818</link>

        

        
            <description><![CDATA[see
<a class="jive-link-external" href="http://yakovfain.javadevelopersjournal.com/how_oracle_kills_open_source_1.htm" target="_newWindow">http://yakovfain.javadevelopersjournal.com/how_oracle_kills_open_source_1.htm</a>]]></description>
        

        <pubDate>Wed, 01 Nov 2006 05:48:03 -0500</pubDate>

        

        <jf:creationDate>Wed, 01 Nov 2006 05:48:03 -0500</jf:creationDate>
        <jf:modificationDate>Wed, 01 Nov 2006 05:48:03 -0500</jf:modificationDate>
        <jf:date>Nov 1, 2006</jf:date>
        <jf:author>CS B</jf:author>
        <jf:replyCount>0</jf:replyCount>
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        <title>rhdb</title>
        <link>http://www.theserverside.com/discussions/thread.tss?thread_id=42818</link>

        

        
            <description><![CDATA[<blockquote><blockquote>RedHat still offer RedHat DB (PostgreSQL), or has it been discontinued?</blockquote><br><br>They have a lot of PostgreSQL contributors as well as one of the leads.</blockquote>...]]></description>
        

        <pubDate>Wed, 01 Nov 2006 02:04:38 -0500</pubDate>

        

        <jf:creationDate>Wed, 01 Nov 2006 02:04:38 -0500</jf:creationDate>
        <jf:modificationDate>Wed, 01 Nov 2006 02:04:38 -0500</jf:modificationDate>
        <jf:date>Nov 1, 2006</jf:date>
        <jf:author>jon martin solaas</jf:author>
        <jf:replyCount>0</jf:replyCount>
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        <title>Re: rhdb</title>
        <link>http://www.theserverside.com/discussions/thread.tss?thread_id=42818</link>

        

        
            <description><![CDATA[<blockquote>RedHat still offer RedHat DB (PostgreSQL), or has it been discontinued?</blockquote>

They have a lot of PostgreSQL contributors as well as one of the leads.]]></description>
        

        <pubDate>Tue, 31 Oct 2006 20:38:00 -0500</pubDate>

        

        <jf:creationDate>Tue, 31 Oct 2006 20:38:00 -0500</jf:creationDate>
        <jf:modificationDate>Tue, 31 Oct 2006 20:38:00 -0500</jf:modificationDate>
        <jf:date>Oct 31, 2006</jf:date>
        <jf:author>Bill Burke</jf:author>
        <jf:replyCount>1</jf:replyCount>
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        <title>rhdb</title>
        <link>http://www.theserverside.com/discussions/thread.tss?thread_id=42818</link>

        

        
            <description><![CDATA[<blockquote>looks like these companies have full development stack:<br><br>Microsoft:<br>Windows Server + MS-SQL + IIS + Visual Sudio<br>.Net platfrom<br><br>Oracle<br>Linux + Oracle DB + OC4J + JDeveloper <br>JavaEE (ADF Framework,...]]></description>
        

        <pubDate>Tue, 31 Oct 2006 16:11:12 -0500</pubDate>

        

        <jf:creationDate>Tue, 31 Oct 2006 16:11:12 -0500</jf:creationDate>
        <jf:modificationDate>Tue, 31 Oct 2006 16:11:12 -0500</jf:modificationDate>
        <jf:date>Oct 31, 2006</jf:date>
        <jf:author>jon martin solaas</jf:author>
        <jf:replyCount>0</jf:replyCount>
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        <title>rhdb</title>
        <link>http://www.theserverside.com/discussions/thread.tss?thread_id=42818</link>

        

        
            <description><![CDATA[<blockquote>looks like these companies have full development stack:<br><br>Microsoft:<br>Windows Server + MS-SQL + IIS + Visual Sudio<br>.Net platfrom<br><br>Oracle<br>Linux + Oracle DB + OC4J + JDeveloper <br>JavaEE (ADF Framework,...]]></description>
        

        <pubDate>Tue, 31 Oct 2006 16:10:00 -0500</pubDate>

        

        <jf:creationDate>Tue, 31 Oct 2006 16:10:00 -0500</jf:creationDate>
        <jf:modificationDate>Tue, 31 Oct 2006 16:10:00 -0500</jf:modificationDate>
        <jf:date>Oct 31, 2006</jf:date>
        <jf:author>jon martin solaas</jf:author>
        <jf:replyCount>2</jf:replyCount>
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        <title>Re: Only question: Why not sooner?</title>
        <link>http://www.theserverside.com/discussions/thread.tss?thread_id=42818</link>

        

        
            <description><![CDATA[<blockquote>I think nobody has done it before because its freakin hard to do.  Red Hat is a huge contributor to many parts of the Linux ecosystem.  Sure, Oracle can "just take our code", but you still have to develop the relationship with the Linux...]]></description>
        

        <pubDate>Mon, 30 Oct 2006 20:35:17 -0500</pubDate>

        

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        <jf:modificationDate>Mon, 30 Oct 2006 20:35:17 -0500</jf:modificationDate>
        <jf:date>Oct 30, 2006</jf:date>
        <jf:author>Cameron Purdy</jf:author>
        <jf:replyCount>0</jf:replyCount>
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        <title>Re: Only question: Why not sooner?</title>
        <link>http://www.theserverside.com/discussions/thread.tss?thread_id=42818</link>

        

        
            <description><![CDATA[<blockquote>I've always wondered why someone (i.e. someone bigger than RedHat, like IBM) didn't do this sooner. RedHat cannot prevent anyone from copying and selling RHEL, and obviously they can't stop anyone from selling support for Linux.</blockquote>...]]></description>
        

        <pubDate>Mon, 30 Oct 2006 10:03:19 -0500</pubDate>

        

        <jf:creationDate>Mon, 30 Oct 2006 10:03:19 -0500</jf:creationDate>
        <jf:modificationDate>Mon, 30 Oct 2006 10:03:19 -0500</jf:modificationDate>
        <jf:date>Oct 30, 2006</jf:date>
        <jf:author>Bill Burke</jf:author>
        <jf:replyCount>1</jf:replyCount>
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        <title>Microsoft, Oracle, IBM, Redhat, Sun --&amp;gt; MySQL acquisition</title>
        <link>http://www.theserverside.com/discussions/thread.tss?thread_id=42818</link>

        

        
            <description><![CDATA[looks like these companies have full development stack:...]]></description>
        

        <pubDate>Sun, 29 Oct 2006 13:42:31 -0500</pubDate>

        

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        <jf:date>Oct 29, 2006</jf:date>
        <jf:author>Arash Rajaeeyan</jf:author>
        <jf:replyCount>4</jf:replyCount>
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        <title>Re: Only question: Why not sooner?</title>
        <link>http://www.theserverside.com/discussions/thread.tss?thread_id=42818</link>

        

        
            <description><![CDATA[<blockquote>I easily understand how current Red Hat customers can switch from RHAT to Orcale support offering. That is quite simple, actually you don't even need to be a Oracle existing customer. So you decide to switch and Oracle takes care of your Red...]]></description>
        

        <pubDate>Sun, 29 Oct 2006 12:03:53 -0500</pubDate>

        

        <jf:creationDate>Sun, 29 Oct 2006 12:03:53 -0500</jf:creationDate>
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        <jf:date>Oct 29, 2006</jf:date>
        <jf:author>Frank Bolander</jf:author>
        <jf:replyCount>0</jf:replyCount>
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        <title>Re: Only question: Why not sooner?</title>
        <link>http://www.theserverside.com/discussions/thread.tss?thread_id=42818</link>

        

        
            <description><![CDATA[I easily understand how current Red Hat customers can switch from RHAT to Orcale support offering. That is quite simple, actually you don't even need to be a Oracle existing customer. So you decide to switch and Oracle takes care of your Red hat...]]></description>
        

        <pubDate>Sun, 29 Oct 2006 05:57:59 -0500</pubDate>

        

        <jf:creationDate>Sun, 29 Oct 2006 05:57:59 -0500</jf:creationDate>
        <jf:modificationDate>Sun, 29 Oct 2006 05:57:59 -0500</jf:modificationDate>
        <jf:date>Oct 29, 2006</jf:date>
        <jf:author>Stephan Pratt</jf:author>
        <jf:replyCount>1</jf:replyCount>
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        <title>Re: The Lawyer's Game?</title>
        <link>http://www.theserverside.com/discussions/thread.tss?thread_id=42818</link>

        

        
            <description><![CDATA[oh.. it is "fourc conclusions". Th lawyers just filed two more. :-)]]></description>
        

        <pubDate>Sat, 28 Oct 2006 17:35:08 -0400</pubDate>

        

        <jf:creationDate>Sat, 28 Oct 2006 17:35:08 -0400</jf:creationDate>
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        <jf:date>Oct 28, 2006</jf:date>
        <jf:author>hacking bear</jf:author>
        <jf:replyCount>0</jf:replyCount>
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        <title>The Lawyer's Game?</title>
        <link>http://www.theserverside.com/discussions/thread.tss?thread_id=42818</link>

        

        
            <description><![CDATA[OK, so two conclusion:...]]></description>
        

        <pubDate>Sat, 28 Oct 2006 17:34:02 -0400</pubDate>

        

        <jf:creationDate>Sat, 28 Oct 2006 17:34:02 -0400</jf:creationDate>
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        <jf:date>Oct 28, 2006</jf:date>
        <jf:author>hacking bear</jf:author>
        <jf:replyCount>1</jf:replyCount>
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        <title>Only question: Why not sooner?</title>
        <link>http://www.theserverside.com/discussions/thread.tss?thread_id=42818</link>

        

        
            <description><![CDATA[I've always wondered why someone (i.e. someone bigger than RedHat, like IBM) didn't do this sooner. RedHat cannot prevent anyone from copying and selling RHEL, and obviously they can't stop anyone from selling support for Linux....]]></description>
        

        <pubDate>Sat, 28 Oct 2006 15:21:36 -0400</pubDate>

        

        <jf:creationDate>Sat, 28 Oct 2006 15:21:36 -0400</jf:creationDate>
        <jf:modificationDate>Sat, 28 Oct 2006 15:21:36 -0400</jf:modificationDate>
        <jf:date>Oct 28, 2006</jf:date>
        <jf:author>Cameron Purdy</jf:author>
        <jf:replyCount>4</jf:replyCount>
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        <title>Bull*&amp;#38;#%!</title>
        <link>http://www.theserverside.com/discussions/thread.tss?thread_id=42818</link>

        

        
            <description><![CDATA[For all the reasons put forward by Dave Dargo at Ingres.
<a class="jive-link-external" href="http://blogs.ingres.com/davedargo/content/2006-10-25.html" target="_newWindow">http://blogs.ingres.com/davedargo/content/2006-10-25.html</a>]]></description>
        

        <pubDate>Sat, 28 Oct 2006 14:54:00 -0400</pubDate>

        

        <jf:creationDate>Sat, 28 Oct 2006 14:54:00 -0400</jf:creationDate>
        <jf:modificationDate>Sat, 28 Oct 2006 14:54:00 -0400</jf:modificationDate>
        <jf:date>Oct 28, 2006</jf:date>
        <jf:author>Knut Forkalsrud</jf:author>
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