OzHub, the Macquarie Telecom-led cloud computing alliance, has come down firmly on the side of Optus over the copyright controversy surrounding Optus TV Now, warning that any moves to change the law "risk branding Australia a global luddite state."
On the eve of the OracleWorld user conference, market watchers are divided on whether Oracle intends to make an announcement concerning its Linux plans. However, I believe it's a fair bet that Oracle is working on incorporating Ubuntu Linux into its own product.
Some analysts say Oracle is going to announce
a move to offer its own Linux product based on the Ubuntu distro,
others say that it will announce an alliance with Red Hat, and still
others say it will make no announcement at all.
All of the speculation is based on the musings of Oracle founder Larry
Ellison back in April when he said words to the effect that he would
like Oracle to own the entire software stack.
In an interview with CNET News, Mark Shuttleworth, founder and CEO of
Ubuntu Linux developer Canonical, would not comment on the question of
whether an Ubuntu Linux partnership with Oracle is in the pipeline.
What is one to make of a "no comment" answer to a direct question?
If Canonical wasn't working with Oracle on some sort of Ubuntu plan, he
would have said no. Why would Shuttleworth leave the question open to
speculation if nothing was happening?
The obvious conclusion would seem to be that something is happening.
Oracle and Canonical are either in discussions or a deal has alreay
been struck.
After a deal earlier this year with Sun Microsystems to run Ubuntu
alongside Solaris on low-end SPARC servers, it appears that Ubuntu is
emerging as a favorite Linux flavour among large vendors. Ubuntu
happens to be one of the easiest to install and manage Linux desktop
distros and has become increasingly popular with home users of Linux in
the past year, much to the chagrin of Novell and Red Hat.
No doubt if I'm wrong about this, I'll get beaten up by readers but if
I was a betting man, I would say that Oracle and Ubuntu is worth a
punt.
David Frost
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