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    Oracle Sees Rosy Linux Future

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    Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols
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    October 22, 2003
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      WASHINGTON, D.C.—In a presentation that underscored Oracle Corp.s support for Linux in the enterprise, Jim Enright, director of Oracles Linux Program Office took the keynote stage at the Enterprise Linux Forum here on Wednesday to describe how the open-source OS helps Oracle customers and the company itself.

      Noting Linus Torvalds historic 1991 Usenet Linux posting, in which the OS creator wrote that he was “doing a (free) operating system (just a hobby wont be big and professional like gnu) for 386(486) AT clones,” Enright said that today, Oracle is “aggressively” transferring its internal IT to Linux.

      Looking ahead, Enright said he sees all of Oracle internal IT working on the Linux platform. Even now, he noted, all Oracle employees use Linux at some point in their workday.

      Enright said that in addition to savings on upfront deployment, Linux reduces the cost of system management and support. While customers used to have to deploy different Oracle DBMSes on different boxes, Linux enables them to deploy, manage and upgrade an Oracle program on multiple systems running the same version of the Oracle database and the OS.

      Enright said Redwood Shores, Calif.-based Oracle has recommended its users stick to a short list of enterprise Linux distributions: either Red Hat or UnitedLinux (primarily SuSE). That approach avoids what Enright called the “Heathkit TV” approach, assembling an enterprise-grade Linux from disparate parts.

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      With those distributions, Oracle offers its “Unbreakable Linux” support plan: Oracle customers who have problems with the operating system can approach Oracle for a solution, not the distribution developer.

      Customers who now go to Oracle for outsourced DBMS solutions are now automatically placed on Linux platforms unless they express a preference for another platform. Since Oracle started this policy in May, he said, all the customers have opted to stick with Linux. Today, more than 60 percent of Oracles hosted customers are running on Linux.

      Enright said that Linux still needs improvements in areas such as graceful degradation, CPU and memory scalability, and cluster management. But, he maintained, the technical and financial advantages of Linux far outweigh its weak points.

      Enright was the second keynote speaker of the day, which opened with a presentation by Jon “Maddog” Hall, executive director of Linux International, a nonprofit association of computer vendors that support Linux.

      /zimages/1/28571.gifRead eWEEK.coms interview with Jon “Maddog” Hall.

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      Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols
      I'm editor-at-large for Ziff Davis Enterprise. That's a fancy title that means I write about whatever topic strikes my fancy or needs written about across the Ziff Davis Enterprise family of publications. You'll find most of my stories in Linux-Watch, DesktopLinux and eWEEK. Prior to becoming a technology journalist, I worked at NASA and the Department of Defense on numerous major technological projects.

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