Oracle Linux has been updated with complete compatibility for Red Hat Enterprise Linux, as well as post-quantum cryptography ...

Linux received a boost from Oracle today when the Redwood City, California-based company certified its database product on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3. In addition, Oracle announced it will provide ...

The database giant will finish switching its programmers to Linux by the end of the year--and now is the top database seller for the open-source operating system. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from ...

When Wim Coekaerts is solving problems and building things, he’s happy. When he’s not, he’s not. In his long career, he’s found joy working on early database appliances, and later guiding Oracle’s ...

I can see why folks are throwing brickbats at Oracle for their latest Linux move, which seemed to be long anticipated. So I hope the brickbats were long in the making and not the result of shock or ...

IBM is not ready to guarantee that its computer programs are compatible with Oracle's recently launched version of the Linux operating system, an IBM spokesman said Friday. This means that if IBM ...

Oracle may end up merging the best of OpenSolaris with Linux once it takes control of Sun Microsystems, but it is unlikely to kill off Sun’s widely used Solaris OS, analysts said. On a conference call ...

Give it a go, says Gartner... Oracle's cut-price Unbreakable Linux will be a threat to the future of Red Hat and organisations should consider testing it on mission-critical systems, according to ...

Despite personal beliefs, everybody treads a bit more carefully on Friday the 13th. But no amount of precaution could protect the Open Source community from the wave of bad luck that fell last Friday.

Oracle will port its Enterprise Linux distribution to Sun’s Sparc processor, a move that could help it compete better against IBM and Hewlett-Packard in the high-end server business. CEO Larry Ellison ...

WASHINGTON – IBM and Oracle have both launched efforts to get the Linux operating system a security certification required by the U.S. Department of Defense, so that Linux vendors aren’t cut off from ...