Too Soon for Red Hat to Run Up the White Flag.

[AndreL]

Oracle made big news in the open source world last week with its announcement (http://www.crn.com/sections/breakingnews/breakingnews.jhtml?articleId=193402304) that it is going to offer a less-expensive clone of Red Hat. It will achieve this via taking Red Hat's product, stripping out Red Hat-specific material (trademarks, etc.) and rebranding the result with an Oracle trademark. It will then offer support for that product at a cheaper price ($999/year vs. $2500/year for Red Hat's equivalent offering).

http://blogs.cio.com/too-soon-for-red-hat-to-run-up-the-white-flag