[benblack]

Yes, you can go buy name-brand hardware (Dell, IBM, Sun, HP) in a special configuration not used anywhere else in your infrastructure and install an OS on it which you don't run on any other system, all just so you can have the honor of paying Oracle. That was my point.

[gaius]

Eh? Dell is very much not a brand like IBM or HP, they are pioneers in the field of cheap generic hardware. That's why I chose them as an example! And Red Hat is hardly an obscure OS these days either... And Oracle runs happily on Windows or many other common OSs too...