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Dell and HP To Sell Oracle Operating Systems

Posted by Soulskill on from the cross-contamination dept.

angry tapir writes "Oracle has announced that rival hardware vendors Dell and Hewlett-Packard intend to certify and resell its Solaris and Enterprise Linux operating systems as well as Oracle VM on their x86 servers. The announcement 'demonstrates Oracle's commitment to openness,' company co-president Charles Phillips said in a statement."

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  1. Re:Ubuntu Linux? by CannonballHead · · Score: 5, Informative

    That is not true. Granted, they don't have many but they do offer ... three... but that includes a desktop system with Ubuntu 10.04. Which was released pretty recently. Which means they are still actively doing stuff with Ubuntu over there at Dell.

  2. Re:Hey, Dell by CannonballHead · · Score: 2, Informative

    Well, it's not many, but they do offer some Ubuntu systems.