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Oracle’s Red Hat Rip-off
No one saw this coming. People talked about Oracle making its own Linux, or buying a Linux company (Ubuntu?). But, the news that Oracle is…
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Oracle Adopts Red Hat Linux as Its Own
Oracle on Oct. 25 announced that it will provide the same enterprise-class support for Linux as it provides for its database, middleware and applications products.…
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LSB Developer Network: An MSDN for Linux
One major advantage Microsoft developers have over their Linux counterparts is that they have access to MSDN (Microsoft Software Developer Network), a magnificent online developer…
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There Is No Oracle Linux
Repeat after me: “There is no Oracle Linux.” I don’t care how many times you hear stock analysts say that Oracle is about to launch…
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Let the Browser Wars Begin—Again
Firefox 2.0 is almost here, and Microsoft is expected to start pushing out Internet Explorer 7 to users via the Windows Automatic Update software-distribution mechanism…
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Are Accurate Delivery Dates Too Much to Ask for?
I’m not cynical enough. No, really. I got my nose rubbed into that recently. A good friend of mine wanted to know where—not when—he could…
