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CBS MarketWatch: Larry Ellison talks Linux

Apr 23, 2006, 01:00 (1 Talkback[s])
(Other stories by John C. Dvorak)

"Larry Ellison told the Financial Times this week that he was thinking of doing a Linux 'distro" (the term for individual variants--short for distribution) to support the Oracle database. RedHat stock immediately took a hit.

"This decline wasn't helped by Ellison's casual comment that Red Hat could so easily be 'be wiped off the map...'"

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