Edward Screven Interview | Linux Today

Edward Screven Interview

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
May 6, 2008

“Jim Zemlin: I’d like to talk a little bit about your personal
background because I polled a few folks in the Linux community, and
told them that I was very excited about speaking with you today and
many of them had never heard of you before. I don’t think in a bad
way, but I think it would be good to let some folks hear about your
specific role at Oracle and sort of where you have come from in the
technology world.

“Edward Screven: My title is Chief Corporate Architect. So I
report directly to Larry Ellison, who’s Oracle’s CEO, and I help
that product direction across the company and make sure our
products are lined up with our company strategy. And I have a few
more specific responsibilities and one of my favorites is I’m
responsible for our Linux engineering efforts. So I’m responsible
for our Unbreakable Linux program…”

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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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