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Note to Yankee - ever heard of Miracle Linux?
June 30, 2006
Yankee Group analyst Laura DiDio has been waxing lyrical on the potential for Oracle to enter the Linux business and has suggested that the company may choose to acquire a Linux distribution.
"Unless they have a secret lab somewhere and they've been building and testing a complete stack for the past two years, they need to buy into the space this year," she told TechWeb.
The thing is though, Oracle has been doing precisely that, and it hasn't made much of a secret about it.
You may remember back in April that Oracle CEO Larry Ellison speculated aloud to the FT about owning a Linux distribution and while many other publications went wild with speculation about Oracle acquiring a Linux distribution, CBR calmly explained how Ellison's comments revealed that the company was unlikely to do so.
Well anyway, one thing we also drew attention to was the fact that if Oracle wanted to own a Linux distribution it need look no further than Oracle Japan's majority ownership of Miracle Linux, part of the Asianux joint venture with China's Red Flag and South Korea's Haansoft.
CBR/ComputerWire has followed Oracle's involvement with Asianux for some time and noted in January 2004 that the company stood to benefit from hosting the original collaboration between Red Flag and Miracle Linux at Oracle’s China development Center in Beijing (subscribers only unfortunately).
Oracle made Asianux one of its three globally supported Linux platforms in July of that year (again subscribers only) putting it on a par with Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Novell SUSE Linux Enterprise Server having certified its entire 10g product suite to the distribution.
Oracle has indeed been building and testing a complete stack for the past two years - and it has made no secret of it. Whether that means it is about to enter the Linux distribution business is another matter. For now, I see no reason to change our initial assessment.
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