Now, wouldn it be funny if commercial Linux distributor Red Hat, having beaten Oracle to the punch with its $350 million acquisition of Oracle rival and open source middleware maker JBoss, finds itself in a hostile takeover situation where Oracle tries to eat Red Hat and JBoss in one big gulp?
This would not be the first time that Oracle had a controlling stake in a Linux distributor, although you wouldn’t know that from reading all of the stories in the financial and trade press. Oracle, as it turns out, has a 58.5 percent stake in a little operation called Miracle Linux, which is a venture that Oracle launched in June 2000 to help foster a Japanese distribution of Linux with server maker NEC. Miracle Linux has a green logo that uses the same exact font as the red Oracle logo, which is a dead giveaway to the company’s origin. And, Miracle Linux also has an apparently untranslatable slogan, which comes across as “Do the Next, Open Your Window” when it is converted from Japanese to English. (Honestly, this sounds more like an illegal source code copy of Windows Server 2003 than Linux.) Miracle Linux has been working with Red Flag Linux of China and Haansoft Linux of Korea to create a pan-Asian Linux appropriately called Asianux.
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