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Unbreakable Linux support - Oracle's claim

by Sam Varghese
Tuesday, 29 January 2008
Page 1 of 2 Oracle's push into the Linux space is gaining momentum with the company even taking the trouble to fly someone down from Singapore to present a talk today at the Australian national Linux conference. Register now to win a Canon EOS 500D However, the talk given by Shane Owenby, senior director of the company's Linux and open source technology sales division in the Asia-Pacific region, was somewhat more marketing oriented than technical. Oracle Unbreakable Linux - the company's slogan for selling the operating system - is not a distribution per se. Oracle does what CentOS does - take Red Hat Enterprise Linux, strip out the trademarks and then give it to customers. The difference is that Oracle, given the many and varied resources it has, can offer the business customer a lot more and at a lower price than Red Hat. There is more than a degree of competition between the two companies as Oracle itself is certified to run on RHEL. Nevertheless, as Red Hat's Richard Keech pointed out, the two companies have a good relationship. Owenby has done the rounds, having worked for IBM, CollabNet, and Red Hat before coming to Oracle. One reason he offered for switching to Oracle was that he had met more CIOs in four months in his new job than he had met during the four years he worked for Red Hat. << First page < 1 2 Next page > Last page - Post your comment >>