[via Stephen Walli]

Some inputs concerning Oracle and Linux, I have missed this…

[…] The rumour suggests the Oracle version will be based on Red Hat’s distro. […] Oracle taking on its own distro rather than continuing to contribute to the community is engineering inefficient and a waste of shareholder money, and it doesn’t solve the customer’s problem any better. If Red Hat is unreasonably behind in delivering the platform to Oracle’s needs, they could better invest in the relationship than in undertaking to take on their own distro based on Red Hat. […] Oracle is still very like some other software companies, praising open source on the one hand around Linux, but with contradictory rhetoric on the other hand around such things as Postgres and EnterpriseDB and MySQL. Oracle Linux, or Oracle Red Hat Linux, would be bad business for Oracle.

Update: Stephen Walli is leaving Optaros to found a start-up. Exciting!