Steve VN opines that the yesterday's announcement really amounts to Oracle's Red Hat rip-off, but here's what I think.

I think that Red Hat did a very stupid thing with thier JBoss acquie, deeply upsetting partnerships that amounted to tacit industry backing, and this is an outshoot of that upset. After all, the only company affected deeply by this is Red Hat. Case in point, yesterday after the announcement of Unbreakable Linux, we checked the various stock prices:

Oracle - Up 22c
Novell - Down 11c
Red Hat - Down $5+, or 26%

I was at a trade show and many people came over to tell me about this, even though I knew I wanted to see what they had to say, it was all about "Ooh, Red Hat really pissed off Oracle, they better hope that JBoss revenue is enough, since they are going to lose a large chunk, ie: all thier Oracle support revenue" or things that all contained those main ideas.

How did this affect my employer? Not much, if any, they are very careful to stand back and just focus on the huge adoption of SLE 10, a good view of this being my talking to about 3,000 people yesterday at a company trade show, all very interested in a) the free penguins b) the SLED 10 demo's and info c) the SLES 10 Xen virtualization piece and how to save $ with it. B and C ran very close seconds to A...