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I’ve been positioning myself among differents options. Most of times, very conscious. I’d choose Unix and Linux systems instead of MS. I’d choose command line as far as I’m able to use it.

I probably mismatch with LAMP in a early age when companyies have turn towards J2EE + JSP and so on. I have no regrets ’cause LAMP solutions are quite adopted in web world.

… but, I feel that I was to young, and I don’t freedom enough to choose betwen MS and Apple. So now I feel on other side of the road, the wrong side.

By reading news at My Yahoo! I’ve arrived to this article about next coming Oracle’s linux distro. It seems that it would be announced in July.

Among others issues it is few aspects:

• Oracle would able to offer a complete stack by delivering database + application +middle ware + operative system, what looks like MS does, all in one solution provider.
• in the very first moment Ellison interview hurts on Red Hat value, but now it doesn’t
• Irony; Oracle was injecting money in Red Hat when they start up
• Oracle has refused to comment nothing on this subject, so, what to think about it?
• some analist point that is not so easy to clone a Red Hat distro

In my opinion Red Hat were not a threat until they buy best ldap server (former Sun, former IPlanet, former AOL, former Netscape) and JBoss. Red Hat has become a middle ware option. In that field, now, not before, Red Hat is a competitor.

That’s why Ellison wants to erase them from the field. It should be better if they improve what they were doing well ’till now; databases. Many people -not analyst but developers- told me that Oracle were mistaken by doing what they do with Orion. Probably now, they’re in the right way with middle ware. In they effort to offer everything they even provide they own ldap server (OID) wich is not the most mature option, lest say.

It’s seems clear that Google does things in a different way. I’ve read this note in slashdot about how Google’s Novel management systems aids growth and I agree with them.

In IT comanyies or even in IT departments (maybe in anything) to let a gap for creativity is a choice to improve tasks. Rembember that Google let’s a 20% of employee time for their own developments. And in IT it makes a difference, the one who innovates the better they’re.

I would like to creativity was more appreciate at jobs

Most people use their ipod for fun, for hear music and that’s right (me too). Podcasts are offering a new approach to internet communication; although they aren’t bi-directional they, tipically, offer us a change to hear somebody talking about a subject in which it’s supposed to be competent.

From the beginning I’ve started to hear podcast in english trying to understand everything (I think is a good way to improve my vocabulary, comprehension, …) but even you aren’t interested in this things you may take advantage by hearing podcast from this universities. Sure we gonna learn a lot:

• Berkeleyon iTunes
• Standford in iTunes

Oops! I forget it, it’s easily using ipod + iTunes

Via this slashdot note on Red Hat CEO suggest Oracle is feeling the heat you may read original interview

I didn’t do yet so don’t take me very seriously, but, although Red Hat may be is getting closer to some Oracle targets (such as middleware software buying JBoss), Oracle is yet pretty bigger that Red Hat and companyies need databases more that a particular SO

A big company may assume the cost of migrate from MS to Solaris, or from Solaris to HP-UX if a technological chief decide so. In fact, nowadays is far more easily since you may got everything running on Java+JSP+some very well known RDBM that runs on every SO… but, keep you SO and change from Oracle databases to … to what? DB2, MS-SQL? that really means a headache

So, it may be true that Red Hat is touching b*ll*ocks to Oracle, but by the moment Oracle still is the big one, and Red Hat may get benefeit from Oracle selling databases running on a cheap Red Hat SO…