A company like Oracle is known throughout enterprise as a viable, powerful database solution. Many companies rely on Oracle to provide an extensive database solution for their environment. Inevitably, Oracle will probably provide migration kits to allow customers to seemlessly move from their Windows/UNIX based environments to a Linux environment.
The fact that customers trust Oracle for their database product, they should also trust the environment which Oracle says is stable and their chosen environment, especially if Oracle is willing to assist in a seemless migration path.
Oracle also knows that it cannot compromise the integrity and speed of their database - choosing Linux means that they are also confident in Linux's ability to provide that integrity and speed.
The ability to tout Intel's platform as a viable alternative to the expensive hardware that most Oracle databases run on now is merely to suggest the flexibility of Linux being able to run well on various platforms.
I think this is a significant win for Linux considering the locked-in approach many commercial vendors seem to deploy in the enterprise environment. A company as large as Oracle touting Linux as trustworthy, capable, and powerful is a sweet compliment to an operating system that a few years back would have never been considered as an operating system platform for consideration.
Be mindful that Rick Berman himself said that he would much rather take an artistic license with regards to the series versus attempting to antiquate the technology. The original pilot had TV screens attached to lamp-like posts you'd find on a desk - this was the "best" of the 60's.
A good interview article explains some of their intepretations of the beginning era of Starfleet and why things look the way they do (i.e. Klingons in the new style versus the old).
Sega will continue to manufacture the Dreamcast - GG will be a sibling to the already established Dreamcast platform and will contain the brains and mechanics to actually run the games. For those who have Dreamcasts, this does not signify the end of Dreamcast. It just merely adds to the chaos of gaming system announcements.
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A company like Oracle is known throughout enterprise as a viable, powerful database solution. Many companies rely on Oracle to provide an extensive database solution for their environment. Inevitably, Oracle will probably provide migration kits to allow customers to seemlessly move from their Windows/UNIX based environments to a Linux environment.
The fact that customers trust Oracle for their database product, they should also trust the environment which Oracle says is stable and their chosen environment, especially if Oracle is willing to assist in a seemless migration path.
Oracle also knows that it cannot compromise the integrity and speed of their database - choosing Linux means that they are also confident in Linux's ability to provide that integrity and speed.
The ability to tout Intel's platform as a viable alternative to the expensive hardware that most Oracle databases run on now is merely to suggest the flexibility of Linux being able to run well on various platforms.
I think this is a significant win for Linux considering the locked-in approach many commercial vendors seem to deploy in the enterprise environment. A company as large as Oracle touting Linux as trustworthy, capable, and powerful is a sweet compliment to an operating system that a few years back would have never been considered as an operating system platform for consideration.
Be mindful that Rick Berman himself said that he would much rather take an artistic license with regards to the series versus attempting to antiquate the technology. The original pilot had TV screens attached to lamp-like posts you'd find on a desk - this was the "best" of the 60's.
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A good interview article explains some of their intepretations of the beginning era of Starfleet and why things look the way they do (i.e. Klingons in the new style versus the old).
http://www.startrek.com/production/seriesv/articl
Sega will continue to manufacture the Dreamcast - GG will be a sibling to the already established Dreamcast platform and will contain the brains and mechanics to actually run the games. For those who have Dreamcasts, this does not signify the end of Dreamcast. It just merely adds to the chaos of gaming system announcements.
Remember, though, that the Athlon is significantly cheaper than the Pentium III - which means you can buy more 1.2MB floppies.