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Linux-Watch: IBM Isn’t Opposed to Oracle Linux

By Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols

“Recent news stories have stated that IBM was refusing to
support Oracle Linux. That’s not true. Further investigation has
shown there was little follow-up on the original Reuters story, and
that some of the confusion came because the story didn’t put IBM’s
comments into the proper context.

“Starting in October, Oracle began shipping its own Oracle
Enterprise Linux. This new Linux is an almost perfect clone of Red
Hat Inc.’s RHEL (Red Hat Enterprise Linux). Despite Oracle’s
efforts to win users over to its operating system offering, it has
made little progress in getting corporate customers to commit to
it…”

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