> From: jack craig <jackc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> >exile wrote: > >> I was thinking something like E-Business Suite for video. :} > >ah, now My ignorance shows! i am not familiar with that product. >perhaps if its a good product, then they might be a good choice. http://www.oracle.com/applications/index.html I was being sarcastic tho' I like the idea of web maintainable apps. {ala debian, "push technology", {marimba}, etc, etc.} I'm not sure anyone would want to pay for the bandwidth to actually edit on the web... It might be nice if it were possible to subscribe to an editor {editing package.} It might be nice if you could just download the same package to any computer and run it. Linux is probably a good place to get that started. >> They're partners with Redhat, no? > >they may be. i don't know about that. what i do know is that >about 18 months ago, they couldn't get a linux host to deliver >the required performance levels they needed so they got sco >to bust their butts and with sco's unixware and the linux >environment they supported, the unixware linux version of >oracle exceeded their performance requirements. > >did they ever publicly acknowledge that work? NO! >did sco die on the vine for a lack of public success? Yes! > >certainly oracle wasn't responsible for sco's demise, but i >hold them morally responsible for taking all that successful free labor >and simply dismissing it. > >i do know that HP & RH are partners, i recently did a RH install on an >itanium >box up in the city. the RH sw was a dedicated HP install. > >anyway, you can consider my earlier comments just a diverse response. :) http://www.redhat.com/products/ There's several stories in their news section {sidebar, left hand side}. Maybe they're trying to make up for it? I don't know. I've never really paid much attention to sco. I get the feeling that sco might have just lost all its UNIX hackers to linux. {maybe we're getting off-topic?}