"Red Hat, Inc. (NASDAQ:RHAT)
, the leader in developing, deploying and managing open source
solutions, today announced completion of the validation of Red Hat
Linux 7.1 for Oracle9i Database and Oracle9i Application Server. In
addition, the validation of Red Hat Linux with other versions of
Oracle software products is expected to be completed by the end of
September. As a result of these efforts, Red Hat will support Red
Hat Linux for use with Oracle software and Oracle will support
Oracle software on Red Hat Linux.
In addition to the work already completed to validate and test
Oracle9i products, Red Hat will validate future releases of Red Hat
Linux as technologically appropriate for Oracle software
products."