Oracle To Finish Linux Makeover This Year

Posted by simoniker on Wednesday May 26, 2004 @10:32PM from the so-pretty dept.

An anonymous reader writes "According to a CNET News article: 'Oracle will finish switching its 9,000-person in-house programming staff to Linux by the end of 2004, the database powerhouse said Wednesday. In October, the company finished the Linux transition for the 5,000 programmers of its Oracle Applications software. Now the transformation has begun for those who work on the database product, said Wim Coekaerts, director of Linux engineering, in an interview at the CeBit trade show in New York.'"

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Yawn. Oracle & Open Source by LesDawson · 2004-05-27 01:07 · Score: 0, Flamebait

Reasons why this is no big deal :

It's only for "geek use", this is the developers desktop we are talking about.
Oracle is not pro Open Source. They are a closed source vendor using OS to get at MS.
The "enemy of my enemy is my friend" is a flawed philosophy. Oracle, IBM are just as big a$$holes as MS.