“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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