Oracle Acquires K-splice For an Undisclosed Amount 226
drspliff writes "Oracle today announced it's completed the acquisition of K-Splice, dropping support for Redhat, CentOS, and SUSE, and closing doors to new customers. Unless of course you want to become an Oracle Linux Premier Support subscriber — then it comes as standard."
Re:Sellouts (Score:5, Funny)
They very well may; Oracle acquired hell about a year and a half ago.
They won't rot in hell. Hell comes with Oracle Enterprise edition. The Ksplice guys only have Oracle Standard Edition. But they don't want to let go of their existing licenses because the new licenses are sold on a per core rather than per machine basis and they can't afford that. Therefore they only get to go to purgatory, which comes bundled with Standard Edition..
Re:Thanks a lot, douchebags. (Score:4, Funny)
CentOS, copy RedHat's fork of ksplice today*.
*For sufficiently large values of "today".
Time for the Swedish Kernel Developer... (Score:4, Funny)
Yorn desh born, der ritt de gitt der gue, Orn desh, dee born desh, de umn fork! fork! fork!
Re:Thanks a lot, douchebags. (Score:4, Funny)
RedHat, please fork ksplice today.
I'd rather watch them fork poshsplice or gingersplice... I'm assuming that ksplice is the new name for kfed after he joined the splice girls...