The Real Truth About Oracle's 'New' Kernel 177
An anonymous reader writes "Yesterday at OpenWorld, Oracle announced a 'new' Enterprise kernel for its so-called Unbreakable Linux. What's the real truth? The company is simply sticking a 2.6.32-based kernel on top of its re-branded Red Hat Enterprise Linux clone and trying to spin it as a new and innovative development."
But... (Score:5, Funny)
What Oracle meant to say.... (Score:3, Funny)
Oracle Linux is Unbreakable and better than Linux.
BUT Linux is bad mojo.... if you want a real OS and not a toy, use Oracle's Solaris.
Somehow they failed to add that last bit. Mixed messages from a VERY mixed up company.
Re:But... (Score:3, Funny)
And it's the real truth!
Not a false truth, or an imaginary truth. This truth is much truthier.
I'd even dare to say it's the truthiest!
Re:Consistent (Score:5, Funny)
Not their flagship database offering. But, you're right, since they acquired Sun, we now have Oracle OpenOffice.org, Oracle VirtualBox, Oracle MySQL, etc., much like before when they acquired SleepyCat so we have Oracle Berkeley DB.
Maybe Oracle should acquire Embarcadero, so we could have Oracle Delphi! *drum fill*
Thank you, thank you. I'm here all week!
Re:But... (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Nope. (Score:4, Funny)
We bought the support from them. No penguin.
I see why you had to post that anonymously.
Re:Uhh, isn't this what Oracle customers pay for? (Score:3, Funny)
But thinking I was made me feel better.
Re:Rebranding something is surprising? (Score:3, Funny)
OTOH, it is moist and delicious.
I postulate that, in spite of the published corporate history [wikia.com], Aperture Science must have started life as Oracle.