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Oracle Switching To Linux

Posted by timothy on Thursday January 31, 2002 @08:42AM 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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Hmmm... by Toby+Truman · 2002-01-31 08:44 · Score: 0, Troll

So is this guy a pinko commie (ID cards, etc.) or righteous defender of freedom (Linux, etc.)?
(Or is he just a capitalist; i.e., whichever is financially convenient at the moment?)

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Technical Writer?
Adding to the rumors... by qurob · 2002-01-31 08:52 · Score: 0, Troll

Coming to a Slashdot near you:

"Oracle buys RedHat"

Could this be the beginning of the end for Sun Microsystems?
Re:Isn't it a bit ironic... by zsmooth · 2002-01-31 09:22 · Score: 1, Troll

You're obviously a troll but...

Apparently their Linux clusters scale well enough to replace their big HP boxes with them... Maybe Larry's just saying this without them having tested the setup, but I doubt it.