IBM Refuses To Certify Oracle Linux

Andrew writes "IBM has thrown a spanner in the Oracle Linux works by refusing to certify that IBM's software portfolio will run and be supported on Oracle Unbreakable Linux. If IBM applications turn out to be incompatible with Oracle Linux, then it will be up to Oracle to resolve any issues. This conservative stance of IBM's is unlikely to help Oracle sell Linux subscriptions to businesses that use any of IBM's large software portfolio."

Oh no!

[Anonymous Coward]

Now that Oracle has added "Unbreakable" in front of the word "Linux"... Linux is finally going to become insecure :(

Note to Linux developers: remember to add all your SVN commits as cron jobs, and forward date them all 2 years, or 3 years if they're critical security patches.

what do you espected from a illegal hacker OS

[Anonymous Coward]

"BSD, Lunix, Debian and Mandrake are all versions of an illegal hacker operation system, invented by a Soviet computer hacker named Linyos Torovoltos, before the Russians lost the Cold War. It is based on a program called "xenix", which was written by Microsoft for the US government. These programs are used by hackers to break into other people's computer systems to steal credit card numbers. They may also be used to break into people's stereos to steal their music, using the "mp3" program. Torovoltos is a notorious hacker, responsible for writing many hacker programs, such as "telnet", which is used by hackers to connect to machines on the internet without using a telephone."

lol read more at:
http://www.adequacy.org/stories/2001.12.2.42056.21 47.html [adequacy.org]

Luniz

[Dogtanian]

Linuzzz.

Weren't they the rappers that had a hit with "I got 5 on it" in the mid-nineties? ;-P

Re:Oh no!

[Anonymous Coward]

It appears that advertisers for software are lots dumber than advertisers for cars. Can't Oracle afford a decent slogan, one that folks won't laugh at? One that isn't so obviously bogus? I mean, Oracle is trying to sell to IT people, not Microsofties. IT folks know damned good and well that no software is unbreakable. Microsoft could get away with it, considering its user base, but not Oracle.

Now, the car companies know how to lie - just tell the truth. For instance:

Chevy - like a rock. (Damned thing won't start and the transmission is locked up again... damn!)

Ford - Quality is job one. (They have no quality and their work is cut out for them)

Pontiac - We Build Excitement! (The handling is crap and the brakes are worse)

Oracle - Faster than a speeding bullet (well, electricity does travel at the speed of light)

Re:The Problem Is There's 500 Linux Distributions

[NDPTAL85]

"We live in different worlds. Right now I see laptops running WinXP and Win2k. Vista might as well not exist. We are members of the Microsoft Developer's Network Academic Alliance, so we can download free-as-in-beer copies of WinXP and Vista. I've only ever seen one copy of Vista running on campus."

Of course we live in different worlds. You live in the academic world and I live in the real one. :)