A CIO of a New South Wales government department in Australia, who requested anonymity, told Computerworld, "good luck to them.".

The CIO, who presides over both Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) and Oracle's clustered database products, said "intentions are one thing", and actually offering support is another.

Oracle rocked the Openworld last week when it at a lower cost than Red Hat under the Unbreakable Linux brand.

Judging by this government department's experience, Oracle is yet to approach local customers about migrating Red Hat Linux to Unbreakable Linux.

"When [Oracle's] offer becomes real we can always look at it and see if there is value in it [but] it's too early in the piece to try and speculate how it's going to end up," the CIO said, adding he has no concern about any supplier entering a new business.