AOL Time Warner has refused to comment on further speculation that it might consider investing in Red Hat, rather than acquiring the Linux manufacturer.
Outspoken chief executive officer Larry Ellison believes the company needs its own operating system to match the competition, and has admitted he considered buying Suse Linux owner, Novell.
Oracle will sell support to Red Hat Linux customers and offer its own free clone of the open-source operating system, Chief Executive Larry Ellison said on Wednesday in the US, posing a major competitive challenge to the leading Linux seller.
Mandriva is the latest Linux distributor to spurn Microsoft's advances for a patent deal, claiming it was not necessary to pay "protection money" to the software giant.
Red Hat escalated the legal war over Linux on Monday by announcing that it has filed a lawsuit against the SCO Group.
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