In October of 2006, Oracle’s CEO Larry Ellison announced a bold new venture, with his company’s own Linux distribution.
Nearly seven years later, Oracle Linux continues to power ahead.
“There are nearly 11,000 customers running Oracle Linux on non-Oracle hardware,” Wim Coekaerts, senior vice president of Linux and Virtualization Engineering, Oracle, told ServerWatch.
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