“Oracle continued its commitment to Linux and one of the
open-source operating system’s leading purveyors when it announced
that its database has been optimized for Red Hat’s latest platform,
Enterprise Linux 3.“Longtime partners Red Hat and Oracle worked together to boost
the scalability and performance of its recently-unveiled Red Hat
Enterprise Linux 3 for Oracle environments, adding more than 50 new
enhancements to help run applications more efficiently.“Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 will provide improved
multi-threading, virtual memory systems and several input/output
improvements, such as increased address space of the kernel from 1
GB to almosy 4 GB, which Oracle said will have a great impact on
the number of users that large roll-outs can handle. Oracle
anticipates its customers will see up to 64 GB of memory, more than
double that of Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS 2.1 running
Oracle…”