Oracle has announced that it will provide open-source software for big businesses. It will soon offer its own version of Red Hat’s Linux open-source OS.
Oracle’s Linux will be the same as the Red Hat one, but it will strip the Red Hat trademark and fix some software bugs in the OS.
Oracle will also offer support services such as further bug repair and updates to the OS.
After the addition of the OS Oracle will develop and sell software designed for the business people like databases and CRM software.
‘We feel great Mr. Ellison has acknowledged Linux as a strategic direction for Oracle,’ said Matthew Szulik, Red Hat chairman, chief executive and president. ‘If you look at the cup being half full, [Oracle] just expanded our marketplace by declaring Red Hat the enterprise Linux standard.’
Oracle has already been offering support, including patches of software bugs for Linux since 2000 and already has a staff of more than 100 engineers with Linux background.
Via: topix
