Oracle may soon detail open-source moves--analysts
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| Buoyed by a $20 billion acquisition spree to better compete
| with SAP AG in the business software market, Oracle Corp.
| next week may unveil moves to boost its open-source
| technology strategy to fend off Microsoft Corp.
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http://yahoo.reuters.com/news/articlehybrid.aspx?storyID=urn:newsml:reuters.com:20061020:MTFH96743_2006-10-20_21-34-22_N20399660&type=comktNews&rpc=44
http://tinyurl.com/ym9k75
This happens amid a big enterprise move over at MySQL AB, which
Oracle once try to <strike>eliminate</strike> acquire. Some
say that Oracle will change over to a Ubuntu-based stack, if
not roll its own Linux products.
Some links:
Oracle #1 on Linux With More Than 80% Market Share
http://www.evolvingtimes.co.uk/technologies/linux/index.html
Oracle Sets World Record for Two-Tier SAP(R) Sales and
Distribution Standard Application Benchmark Running
Linux on Fujitsu PRIMEQUEST 580 Server
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| Running Linux on a Fujitsu PRIMEQUEST(TM) 580 server with
| 32 Dual-Core Intel Itanium 1.6 GHz processors, Oracle
| Database 10g achieved 12,500 SAP SD Benchmark users,
| delivering 40 percent more performance than Microsoft
| SQL Server 2005 on identical hardware, as measured by the
| number of benchmark users.
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http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/061002/sfm092.html?.v=54
Oracle-Ubuntu tie-up coming?
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| A trail of breadcrumbs seems to be connecting database
| powerhouse Oracle with the Ubuntu version of Linux.
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http://news.com.com/2061-11516_3-6127035.html?part=rss&tag=6127035&subj=news
Oracle To Bring Siebel CRM To Linux
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| With its upcoming Siebel 8 release, Oracle will bring Siebel
| CRM into Linux realm for the first time.
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http://www.crn.com/sections/breakingnews/breakingnews.jhtml;jsessionid=RCHUPA51F4WGGQSNDLSCKHA?articleId=193105118
MySQL boosts its Community...with Enterprise
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| MySQL today announced that it has become a truly
| community-driven company. This will sound funny to
| those of you that think MySQL announced its
| Enterprise product today. Yes, it did that. But the
| real news in MySQL's move is its efforts to continue
| to bolster its already vibrant community.
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http://weblog.infoworld.com/openresource/archives/2006/10/mysql_boosts_it.html
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