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Red Hat To Oracle: Have You Tried Free?

By Matt Asay

Oracle probably isn’t the first company that comes to mind when words like “austerity” are used. Perhaps for that very reason Oracle president Mark Hurd recently took to the blog-o-sphere to argue that going all-in with Oracle, even at a premium price, delivers better value. Ironically, Red Hat CEO Jim Whitehurst used the same LinkedIn blog platform just a few days earlier to argue a very different picture of what customer value looks like.

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