Oracle: The biggest Linux vendor you've never heard of
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| Quick -- name a company that has invested heavily and continuously in
| open source, is one of the top contributors to Linux kernel development,
| and offers full enterprise support for Linux to thousands of customers.
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| "When I read magazines and there's a list of companies that are involved
| with Linux -- and Oracle is not on that list -- that's when I get angry,"
| says Wim Coekaerts, Oracle's director of Linux engineering.
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| Oracle is involved with Linux, Coekaerts says, foremost because Oracle
| uses Linux. A lot of Linux. Right now almost 10,000 Linux servers are in
| use internally at Oracle. Essentially, every production server at Oracle
| is a Linux server. In addition, about 9,000 developers at Oracle are
| using Linux to develop products.
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| A lot of that can be attributed to one simple factor: cost savings.
| "We use Linux for the same reason all the other companies are using
| Linux," Coekaerts says.
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