The future of Ubuntu Linux.... Will it make Micky$oft go bankrupt?

[Chan Chung Hang Christopher]

Karl F. Larsen wrote:
> Odd wrote:
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>> Amit Kumar wrote:
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>>     
>>>     What does "coming together of Linuxes" mean?
>>>
>>> Oh, related to my earlier mails: I meant a standardization effort for 
>>> applications on the various Linux flavors, collaboration and putting a 
>>> united front for proprietary OSes (something like the role EU performs 
>>> for European nations). See http://www.linuxfoundation.org/ and 
>>> http://www.linux.com/ . These are some new efforts. IMO such efforts 
>>> would be crucial for boosting Linux. 
>>>     
>>>       
>> I see. Yes, that is a much needed effort. I would like to see that
>> happen as well. One of my pet peeves with Linux has been that
>> software for one distro is incompatible with another. There are
>> work-arounds of course, but they should really not be needed.
>> I think the baseline standard they have made is a good start.
>>
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>     If you want to be a threat to Microsoft you have to put all of 
> Ubuntu's resources into Red Hat which is on the big board and may well 
> be bought by Oricle next year. This is the way to get Linux into the 
> main stream and Red Hat has a going business supplying industry with 
> Linux for the workplace. They would be interested in a Linux sold to the 
> public with certain rights to support in the first 2 months.
>   
...let's see...Oracle is already doing something similar to what Centos 
does with RHEL...so why buy Redhat?

Oracle just gobbled up Sun Microsystems. Now they have Solaris and 
OpenSolaris. Toshiba even sells laptops with OpenSolaris preinstalled. 
Why should Oracle bother with Linux when what they have is much more 
convenient and predictable in some rather important ways such as kernel 
abi/api and licensing issues? Eg: Nvidia drivers come preinstalled. No 
fuss about licensing. Drivers written for Solaris 8,9 are all compatible 
with the latest release and you won't have to worry about later 
releases. Guess who is behind Open Office and has a major stake in GNOME.

If Oracle is going to do anything, it may well be grabbing more of a 
share of the os market seeing that Solaris already enjoys a good share 
of the server market and has a good name. Larry probably would like to 
see Microsoft disappear. Just watch the incoming Larry boys. (heh, bye 
bye Sun engineer)

>     The cost should be less than Windows charges but it will be set by 
> the cost of providing the 2 month support. How to sell Red Hat on a 
> Debian based Ubuntu may not be possible.
>
>   

You don't get it do you Karl? Windows licenses are sold but not so 
RHEL/Ubuntu. A subscription to services related to RHEL/Ubuntu are sold. 
Selling 'Red Hat' on a Debian based Ubuntu is not 'may not be possible', 
it is absolutely impossible because there is no 'Red Hat' to sell.