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Oracle Pushing Forward on Linux and Solaris

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Sean Michael Kerner
Sep 11, 2012

So how is Oracle now handling development of both Linux and Solaris? Is there any cross development happening?

To answer those questions, ServerWatch conducted an interview with Wim Coekearts, Senior Vice President of Linux and Virtualization Engineering at Oracle. While there are some things that Linux can learn from Solaris and vice versa, for the most part the two efforts remain two separate endeavors.

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Sean Michael Kerner

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