“When Larry Ellison made it clear last month, by forcing out
longtime president and COO Ray Lane, that he wanted Oracle to
pursue a much more aggressive tack toward IBM and Microsoft, no one
knew that Linux would play a major part of his new strategy. Now,
we know. Oracle is crowing that it is the first to release an
enterprise-level application server for Linux, Oracle Internet
Application Server 8I (iAS).”
“IBM, with WebSphere and DB2 having long been available on
Linux, begs to differ. IBM and Oracle, along with Informix and
Sybase, had previously released their workgroup sized database
management systems (DBMS), such as Oracle 8i, on Linux. Regardless
of who was first, the day of enterprise DBMS on Linux is
dawning.”
“If you doubt that this is anything save Oracle making a
public relations point, think again. The Linux version of Oracle
iAS is available for order today. Its Windows NT/2000 brother won’t
be out until September. Oracle is dead serious about supporting
Linux as an enterprise platform.”