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Oracle: If RHEL were free, we wouldn’t compete

By Matt Asay

“Let me get this straight. If Red Hat would just give away its
product for free (as in price, source code, etc.), Oracle would be
happy to not try to compete with Red Hat? Is that generosity, or
what?

“I’m sure that others would like to sign up Oracle to this plan.
Maybe IBM and Sun Microsystems could simply abandon their database
development if Oracle will simply give away its database for
free.

“Deal?”


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