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Is there a partnership or acquisition in the works involving Red Hat and Oracle? The grapevine apparently claims so and we speculated about an Oracle acquisition a while ago--still think it makes sense.....

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I've since heard a bit more about this. There's not an acquisition in the works, but Oracle is apparently pushing for some sort of partnership that would bring down the price of RHEL. Oracle doesn't have much of a salesforce pushing "Unbreakable" and it shows. It wants to ride RHEL's coattails but also wants RHEL to be even cheaper...so that no one will notice that it keeps raising its prices.

So, there's substance to the rumors. But will Oracle have the humility to give some value to Red Hat? The jury is still out....

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Thanks for the update, Matt. I think Oracle should open up to working with Red Hat as much as possible. Pricing has been one of the main bugaboos for Oracle in its Linux efforts.

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Well, Oracle ships pretty much all the RHEL code as part of their 'Unbreakable Linux', so a deeper deal ought to make life easier for ORCL!

They are already undercutting the prices of RHEL, offering their RHN equivalent, and are making big pushes into OSS anyway.

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