[Discussioni][Fwd: [Patents] Orcale: Linux Takes on the Enterprise]

[Stefano Maffulli]

Interessante.

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From: Hartmut Pilch <phm a a2e.de>
To: patents a aful.org
Subject: [Patents] Orcale: Linux Takes on the Enterprise
Date: 26 Jul 2003 15:56:25 +0200

The following article from Oracle Magazine might be used to demonstrate to
MEPs that Linux and open source software are not some romantic "community"
outside of "the industry".

	http://otn.oracle.com/oramag/oracle/03-jul/content.html

Some quotes

  Cover Story: Linux Takes on the Enterprise
  By David A. Kelly

  http://otn.oracle.com/oramag/oracle/03-jul/o43linux.html

  Once relegated to running development systems, Linux has become
  strong enough for use in global enterprises with rigorous
  availability, scalability, and performance requirements. Find out
  how this penguin got so big so fast, what role Oracle played in
  strenthening Linux, and how businesses are starting to rely on
  Linux.

  ...

  "We'll be running our whole business on Linux," stated Larry Ellison
  [Oracle CEO] in June 2002.

  ...

  For example, Oracle Files Online is a huge internal file-sharing
  system with more than 12.5 million documents built on top of Oracle
  Database. Its 4 TB of data is used by more than 40,000 employees,
  and the entire system runs on Linux.

  ...

  Commitment to Open Source

  Oracle's contributions to the open-source community break down into
  two categories: ones that are done in conjunction with Oracle's Linux
  partners, and ones that are released directly as open-source
  contributions. For example, Oracle's contributions to performance
  enhancements in the current Linux kernel were made with assistance
  from Red Hat, while its work porting the Oracle Cluster File System to
  Linux is available separately from standard Linux distributions as
  downloadable open-source programs. "We believe very strongly in being
  a positive example and a welcome member of the Linux open-source
  community," says Dargo.

  To provide effective clustering in a Linux environment for Oracle9i
  RAC, Oracle needed to have the cluster file system under its
  control rather than having to go through the standard Linux file
  system. As a result, Oracle ported the Oracle Cluster File System
  to Linux and released it to the open-source community. While it
  applies specifically to Oracle for now, the Oracle Linux team hopes
  that future variations of Oracle Cluster File System from the
  open-source community will find broader uses for its high-performance
  functionality.

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