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SearchEnterpriseLinuxL Linux Adoption Exceeds Oracle’s Expectations

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Aug 12, 2004

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

Has the speed of Linux adoptions met Oracle’s
expectations?
Wim Coekaerts: It’s exceeded our
expectations. After Oracle brought its ‘unbreakable Linux’ campaign
to LinuxWorld in the summer of 2002, a lot of our customers were
convinced that Linux was for real. In 2003, bigger customers
started deploying Linux in production. In some cases, they had road
maps of moving every single server they had to Linux; in others, it
was moving new systems. Now, pretty much every customer that I talk
to has Linux as one of their strategic platforms…”


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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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