Oracle & Red Hat's Symbiotic Relationship

There is a symbiotic relationship between Oracle & Red Hat now. Yes there was one before with Oracle's database business on Linux, but it's even more intertwined now. This relationship is similar to what we see between Red Hat already. CentOS takes RHEL and redistributes it for free. If enough customers of Red Hat were to opt for CentOS instead of RHEL, Red Hat's revenues would suffer. Hence, Red Hat would cut expenses, including their R&D spending. This could lead to development quality and speed on new feature addition issues inside of RHEL. This, by implication would lead to the same issues within CentOS. As a result, fewer customers would use CentOS, thereby returning the balance between Red Hat and CentOS. The same scenario applies to Red Hat & Oracle, at least in the near term. That's why I have a real problem with the likes of Novell SUSE or blog about enterprise open source topics.