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To: Arthur Tang who wrote (63998)	11/1/2006 4:07:57 PM
From: alydar	of 64865

Hi, I think the open source community really got caught with their pants down when Oracle announced that they would be offerring support for Red Hat Linux. Why would anyone start up a software company, using the open source model, knowing that someday that their primary income stream, support revenue, could be chopped out from under them. This leads me to Sun and Solaris. It would have been nice if Oracle decided to support Solaris also so Sun could sell more hardware. But that would have made Oracle look like it was picking favorites in the hardware space. Oracles strategy of offerring software that is based on an open architecture such as Java and can interoperate with other such systems is a much better business model to making money. They are retaining their intellectual property and not giving it away for FREE like solaris. Lastly, I do not understand Mr. Schwartz's statements that HPQ, DELL, and IBM are Solaris customers. Giving something away to another company does not make them a customer but a charity. Alydar

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