The world's second largest software company hasn't quite released its own Linux distribution. At least not yet. Maybe it never will, but the day when it could comfortably roll-out its own business-class version of the open source operating system has moved closer.
In October the company announced it would be providing full global support for Red Hat Linux. In recent weeks it has moved to dramatically undercut Red Hat's support pricing. Yesterday, Oracle announced its Management Pack for Linux. There's a pattern here.
Oracle could be preparing it's own-brand version of the operating system or it could simply be aiming to usurp the enterprise Linux market leader. Either way, it looks as if Oracle now has a well-rounded strategy to break free of other people's proprietary systems software.
But will customers be happy buying, maybe that should read sourcing, their Linux from Oracle?
