[ Thanks to Sonam
Dorji for this link. ]
“Oracle is aggressively adopting Linux both internally and for
its products, despite SCO Group’s threats earlier this week that it
may sue those who don’t pay licensing fees to the company. Chuck
Rozwat, an Oracle executive VP, says the company has moved its IT
infrastructure to Linux, a year after CEO Larry Ellis issued the
mandate.“‘We run our business on Linux,’ Rozwat said at the LinuxWorld
conference in San Francisco on Wednesday. ‘If you look at any IT
company, Oracle is by far the leader at running Linux.’“Oracle chose the platform because of its strengths in security,
scalability, and performance, he said. In the coming year, Oracle
will move its base development platform to Linux, including putting
the open-source operating system on the workstations of 8,000
developers. ‘It’ll be a great improvement for us,’ Rozwat said.
Next month, Oracle intends to release Oracle 10G for Linux for grid
computing. About 700 of the company’s customers are running its
E-business Suite on Linux, Rozwat said. About a year ago, Oracle
started shipping RAC (real application cluster) for Linux to the
likes of British Telecom, Burlington Coat Factory, Dell, and
Merrill Lynch…”