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SearchEnterpriseLinux: Oracle Executive: Linux is Not a Homemade Television

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Apr 9, 2003

[ Thanks to Michael
S. Mimoso
for this link. ]

“Oracle Linux executive Dave Dargo told attendees of the Linux
on Wall Street Conference on Monday that IT needs to start treating
Linux as an enterprise product.

“‘We need to stop looking at Linux as a starting point–as a
Heathkit, a box of bits,’ said Dargo, vice president of Oracle’s
Linux Program Office.

“Dargo recalled the mail-order, build-your-own television
company from his childhood as an analogy for the state of Linux
prior to a few years ago…”


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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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