Linux Kernels, Blog-o-Frenzy, And Why You Should Care
Fall is in the air in New England and I am still sifting through the thousands of product announcements from Oracle OpenWorld 2010 (held in September). One of the questions I keep being asked by solution providers is “What does this new Oracle Linux Kernel mean to me?” Knowing how astute the VAR Guy’s readers are, I jumped at the chance to share my thoughts on this exciting announcement.
A colleague of mine wrote a great post on the press coverage surrounding how the introduction of Oracle’s Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel for Linux that he termed a “Blog-o-Frenzy.” It’s great to see the community so passionate about open source technology! The primary discussion points in the press seem to center around scary words like “proprietary” or “lock-in.” Since when does open-source equal lock-in? Isn’t the whole point that if the community does not like what one company, group or individual is doing, they are free to go in an entirely different direction?
In thinking about this topic, I remembered a recent blog post by Jeff Gould at Peerstone research titled Oracle to Red Hat: It’s Not Your Father’s Linux Market Anymore. I don’t agree with all of Jeff’s conclusions but completely agree with the assertion that “the non-proprietary nature of Linux distributions is a myth.”
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