Inside Oracle's bombshell plan to support Red Hat

Oracle's bombshell plan to offer full support for Red Hat Inc.'s Linux distribution at half the price sent shock waves through the IT industry.

Operating systems expert Tony Iams, a vice president and senior analyst with Ideas International in Port Chester, New York, says the move represents the first time a major applications vendor has jumped into the operating systems business in such a dramatic way. But, he adds, it's also a move that should have come as a major surprise to Red Hat.

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