Oracle Linux?

eldavojohn writes "There have been rumors floating around of Oracle working on their own distribution of Linux. If this is true, it is widely believed that this enterprise edition of Linux would be in direct competition with Red Hat Enterprise Linux. What is spurring the rumors? Well, Oracle chief executive Larry Ellison said, 'I'd like to have a complete stack. We're missing an operating system. You could argue that it makes a lot of sense for us to look at distributing and supporting Linux.' I know that Oracle has been doing a lot more than databases recently, will they go the extra mile and create their own stripped down Linux kernel? If they do, will companies switch to database solutions that are running Oracle only software for the benefits of support and (hopefully) stability?"

Comments

Naming?

[ackthpt]

Maybe Larry will have them label it Pagoda Linux or Samurai Linux, in honour of his fascination with things japanese

i for one welcome our new samurai penguin overlords!

I haven't seen the obvious conclusion yet.

[Bright Apollo]

What if the database replaced the filesystem, i.e. Oracle *is* the operating system? All of your files are just B/CLOBs, all apps are packages called by the Oracle db, and so forth. I don't think I'm reaching (much) on this. Although I do think Bluetooth support will kill it.

-BA