“Unless, as Egbert predicts, Oracle will throw its weight fully
behind Sun’s Solaris, to the detriment of its Linux business:“It seems inevitable Oracle will favor Solaris. While Oracle has
said publicly they will continue support of RHEL, there is a sense
within Red Hat that an increased focus on Open Solaris over RHEL is
inevitable, as Oracle seeks to protect the declining Solaris
maintenance stream. We estimate that 1/3 of Red Hat’s new business
comes from Unix-to-Linux migrations. The danger to Red Hat is that
Oracle will offer customers attractive terms terms to stay on
Solaris, potentially even paying them not to migrate.”
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