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Oracle To Finish Linux Makeover This Year

Posted by simoniker on 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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  1. Sun, not MS by Paul+Townend · · Score: 1, Redundant

    Lest we forget, Oracle are switching their development platform from Sun Solaris to Linux; they didn't use Windows to begin with, as I think a number of people here assume.

  2. Oraclesoft by thirty2bit · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Boy, that announcement has got to be frying Billy Gates' kippers & giving him sleepless nights. To have the most high-profile DB vendor switching to Linux for development is a setback in the World Domaination plan...