Oracle to ship RedHat?

August 1, 2006 12:42 pm Dave Neary General, maemo

There’s an interesting article on ZDNet about comments from Larry Ellison that Oracle should be shipping “a full stack of software” to customers.

What’s most surprising about this is that it’s news.

HP already ships a choice of full stacks of software which are certified for their servers (and laptops). Nokia ships a full stack of software which is taylor-made for the 770. OLPC will be shipping a full custom-tailored stack of software on their laptops.

A common usecase for Oracle customers is to have one server doing nothing but serving a database. Doesn’t it make sense for Oracle to do the tuning work and make sure that the system is optimised for that usecase, and then ship a fully functional system to their clients?

In addition, your clients suddenly no longer have to ask themselves what distribution is best for their Oracle database server – the answLiveCDs for everything and anything and VMWare and Xen appliances?

Free software gives you the freedom to take and adapt software to your needs, and also to the needs of your clients. The only real question is what took them so long?

3 Responses

  1. Nick Says:
    August 1st, 2006 at 10:24 pm

    Actually Asterisk will be shipping linux (rPath as I remember) in their Asterisk for Business thingy.

  2. Peter Says:
    August 1st, 2006 at 11:37 pm

    Sounds like an applicance on a CD.

  3. Richard Says:
    August 3rd, 2006 at 5:53 am

    And who will need all the oracle-consultants of you only need to insert the LiveCD? 😉