Oracle intersted in buying Ubunutu

[Shawn McMahon]

On Thu, Apr 20, 2006 at 09:22:12AM -0500, Cybe R. Wizard said:
> 
> Could you convince IBM of that?  Or maybe Canonical?
> support is what they sell and it seems to work out alright for them.
> Just because the software is free doesn't mean one can't use it as a
> cash cow.

IBM may sell a lot of support, but they've also spent a lot of time
as one of the largest software companies in the world.  It wasn't that
long ago that they bought Tivoli, which doesn't make anything but
proprietary software.  Lotus is another software maker they've purchased
purely to get their hands on a piece of software.

Yes, they make more money on services than on software sales, but this
isn't because they don't sell a lot of software.


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