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Posted on 04/22/2006 4:04:18 PM PDT by N3WBI3
(IDG NEWS SERVICE) - Oracle Corp. customers are intrigued by recent comments by Larry Ellison, the company's CEO, suggesting that Oracle might offer its own Linux distribution (see "Update: Oracle eyes launching its own Linux version"). Users would welcome the tighter integration offered by a complete Oracle software stack of operating system, database, middleware and applications, they said in interviews this week.
"An Oracle-hatched version of Linux would undoubtedly be the most optimal when running Oracle [databases]," said Tony Jedlinski, vice president of administration and warehouse operations at Roman Inc., a wholesale giftware distributor in Addison, Ill. "I don't know if there's a need yet. I'd have no hesitation adopting it if the Oracle brand name was on it."
An Oracle Linux would give more credibility to the open-source operating system and lessen any doubts users might have in adopting the software, he said.
Jedlinski is the executive vice president of the Independent Oracle Users Group (IOUG) and vice president of the group's Web operations. Linux is set to become the dominant operating system used by IOUG members, displacing Sun Microsystems Inc.'s Solaris flavor of Unix, according to a survey conducted earlier this year.
Whether Oracle ends up developing or acquiring its own Linux -- or puts in place a strategic Linux partnership to get closer to the open-source operating system -- IOUG President Ari Kaplan likes the idea of a complete Oracle software stack. Tighter coupling between Linux and Oracle databases would yield faster database performance and improved manageability of the software, he said.
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Personally I think Linux already has great credibility. This is however a good thing for Linux growth because of the Oracle name.
If I were to go to solaris which is a pure price performance decision it would probabally be regular old closed solaris on SPARC
Another plus.
More endless bickering in the Unix/Java wars, as they all try to be like Microsoft.
There is no "regular old closed solaris". Unless you consider Red Hat "regular old closed linux".
There is only one Solaris code base. That is what Sun open sourced. There is some platform specific code (I think about 5% of the code). All code which Sun could release is released as open source. Some, which does not belong to Sun cannot be released.
Sun Solaris is simply a distribution of OpenSolaris, just like Red Hat Enterprise Linux is simply a distribution of Linux.
Thanks for the info I thought the licensing was different..
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