The tone of a question from the Oracle OpenWorld audience summed up overall reaction at the show: "Is killing [Red Hat] an unintended side effect?" Ellison was asked.
Ellison said he expected Red Hat would continue to compete "very aggressively."
At least one Oracle partner sees opportunity in the deal. This will lead to "lower TCO, one neck to choke - we're loving it...more dollars for services," said Scott Jenkins, managing director for the EBS Group, Lenexa, Kansas.
Oracle executives later told press and analysts that Red Hat had not been apprised of this news in advance although clearly IBM, AMD, Dell, Hewlett Packard were--all had canned quotes included in the Oracle press release.
In his keynote, Ellison said the move should clear impediments to widespread Linux adoption in the enterprise. To date, in his view, that adoption has been stymied by a lack of "true enterprise support for the Linux kernel."
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