Tux Watch

I really have no intentions of boring my readers but this FUD (fear-uncertainty-doubt) being injected by Oracle as means for self-promotion is getting worse. Recently, I found this Gartner Report offer in my mailbox. Really, why would Gartner even do a research on the comparison of Oracle’s Unbreakable Linux Programme and Red Hat Linux when Oracle is using Red Hat’s Red Hat Enterprise Linux in the first place? My possible hunch, Oracle is paying Gartner to these FUD reports, a common attribute of the closed source/proprietary source world member corporations. Remember that Microsoft was very active in using a similar strategy trying to defame the up rise of Linux on the Server side.

As my readers have earlier commented, all this Oracle-Red Hat and Microvell FUD is becoming a big draaag boring them. How many corporations in the world run only Oracle? Though they may be a lot but it would never even constitute even 20% piece of the total market share for RDBMS worldwide. There are more contenders in the ERP market including SAP from SAP AG Germany and I am pretty sure Oracle will never be able to buy off this German competitor like it did with Peoplesoft and Siebel. I have seen many other RDBMS and ERP products that have nothing to do with Oracle and are running on the Red Hat Linux platforms. The whole industry and corporate world is not using Oracle only.

Anyways, the Gartner Report [here] is just a single pager FUD report that is trying to defame Red Hat making self-assumptions that the future of Red Hat is vague. The promo email I received states:

Gartner: Oracle’s “Unbreakable Linux” Will Threaten Red Hat
According to a team of Gartner analysts, Oracle’s Linux support offering is a more complete solution than Red Hat. Oracle aims to assert more influence on Linux adoption, accelerate Oracle DBMS acceptance and bolster Linux against Windows. Read what the analysts at Gartner are saying about Oracle’s Unbreakable Linux.

From the above all I can conclude is that there is a lot of uncertainty on all fronts of the Tech Industry possibly due to the fact that the competitors of FOSS are trying to create FALSE FUD and negative HYPE in order to promote distrust in FOSS and provoke end-users to come back to their Closed Source platforms. A lot of propaganda is also being raised in light of the FSF GPLv3 License and Linus Torvalds lack of trust in it but least does the corporate world know that the FOSS community stands united by default irrespective of what crap the industry is trying to promote against FOSS Technology and Platforms.