“Amazon.com has begun testing the Oracle database, operating on
Red Hat Linux, as a possible platform for its behemoth data center,
a top official confirmed this week. The online bookseller, though,
is not excluding Windows solutions from the running either, said
Jacob Levanon, Ph.D., Amazon’s director of systems engineering for
REDIT.“‘We’ve starting experimenting with Oracle on Red Hat. People
from both [Amazon.com and Red Hat] are looking at it. We’d love to
find out that it works very well, and we’d love to move our
database to Red Hat,’ Levanon said in a recent interview with
LinuxPlanet.“Levanon also said that this week that Amazon.com is eyeing the
use of Oracle’s 9iRac for building a clustered database on
Linux…”
LinuxPlanet: Amazon Tests Oracle On Linux, But Windows Is Possible
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