Oracle plans to offer $99/year (two cpu) support to current Red Hat customers. This is about 1/2 the RHAT rate for the same offering: http://www.informationweek.com/software/showArticle.jhtml? articleID=193402336&subSection=Operating+Systems RHAT is down over 16% (currently $16.33, lower than the 52 week low of 18.13) in after-hours trading.