my 5c as an ex-oracle employee (disclaimer: I worked in Linux Support and Ksplice tools dev):
- Oracle Linux is a base copy of Redhat plus additional things to integrate better with Oracle products, it was a bad move against Redhat, but beneficial for Oracle purposes.
- Ksplice: most of people misunderstood the real work of it. Don't blame Oracle for acquire it, somebody sell it and it was always a private technology meaning 'patents involved'. Note that the real work happens when making "the patches" and making sure they are backward compatible, including different architectures. So the real purpose was to provide a service that nobody could provide before. note: As of today you can use Ksplice for free in Debian, Ubuntu and Fedora.
- Why Microsoft would want Wim ?, In my opinion because they need someone who had successfully built Linux into a Line of Business, from a business perspective it sounds a good deal. As of today I don't think Oracle truly supports Open Source, not sure what are the plans for Wim on that area at Microsoft.
> As of today I don't think Oracle truly supports Open Source, not sure what are the plans for Wim on that area at Microsoft.
Considering their frankly disgusting actions with OpenSolaris, they actively hate free software. In fact, they invented a new word: re-proprietrisation.
- Oracle Linux is a base copy of Redhat plus additional things to integrate better with Oracle products, it was a bad move against Redhat, but beneficial for Oracle purposes.
- Ksplice: most of people misunderstood the real work of it. Don't blame Oracle for acquire it, somebody sell it and it was always a private technology meaning 'patents involved'. Note that the real work happens when making "the patches" and making sure they are backward compatible, including different architectures. So the real purpose was to provide a service that nobody could provide before. note: As of today you can use Ksplice for free in Debian, Ubuntu and Fedora.
- Why Microsoft would want Wim ?, In my opinion because they need someone who had successfully built Linux into a Line of Business, from a business perspective it sounds a good deal. As of today I don't think Oracle truly supports Open Source, not sure what are the plans for Wim on that area at Microsoft.