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Oracle Switching To Linux

Posted by timothy on from the there's-floor-room-at-lwce-for-larry dept.

Bill Kendrick writes: "This Computerworld story quotes Oracle CEO Larry Ellison as saying 'We'll be on Linux no later than the summer, so we'll be running our whole business on Linux." When asked what this means for Unix vendors like Sun... "It will be several years before the big machine dies, but inevitably the big machine will die.' Ouch!"

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  1. great! by Syre · · Score: 3, Redundant

    Great... first replace all the proprietary operating systems with open source systems like Linux and FreeBSD. Run your ultra-expensive Oracle on that.

    Then replace the proprietary Oracle with open source systems like Postgres and MySQL.

    Now we're talking!