InfoWorld: Red Hat CEO Undaunted by Oracle, Microsoft | Linux Today

InfoWorld: Red Hat CEO Undaunted by Oracle, Microsoft

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Mar 30, 2007

IDG News Service: You said there was no impact in the
fourth quarter from the Oracle and Microsoft-Novell deals, but
Oracle is boasting that it won over 26 companies who were Red Hat
customers to Oracle Unbreakable Linux, including Yahoo. Your
response?

Szulik: Yahoo executives communicated to me
that they consider Red Hat to be an important and strategic
customer and that they plan to continue to build on their
historical and successful relationship with Red Hat. They said they
did not replace Red Hat across the enterprise, they implemented
Oracle Linux on certain Oracle database servers…”


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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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