Microsoft is more serious about Linux than Oracle
Do you remember the story about the dog that didn't bark? It was a Sherlock Holmes tale where the world's finest detective deduced the killer's identity by observing that a certain dog, who should have been barking ferociously, was in fact completely silent.
The dog who didn't bark reminds me of Oracle. It's been over three months since the database giant announced its clone of Red Hat Enterprise Linux, but we've heard surprisingly little about the new offering. The initial press release back in October mentioned four companies that were endorsing Oracle's Linux, including that well-known IT titan the International House of Pancakes. Since that time Oracle's PR department has cranked out over 100 press releases pertaining to every conceivable Oracle product, but not one has mentioned any new customers for "Unbreakable Linux".
During the same time period, erstwhile Linux arch-enemy Microsoft has somehow managed to unload no fewer than 35,000 subscriptions to Novell's Suse Linux Enterprise Server (aka SLES).
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