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Posted Sep 12, 2006 16:36 UTC (Tue) by nix (subscriber, #2304)In reply to: A link to the orginal article: by gravious
Parent article: Windows will beat Linux threat, say academics (TechWorld)
Your argument that every large software company must have its own OS is more than slightly dented by the 'except Oracle'.
(Of course, in some respects the Oracle RDBMS *is* an OS; at least it contains most of the components of an OS kernel inside itself, for all that it doesn't export them to the outside world. But still.)
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Posted Sep 12, 2006 17:55 UTC (Tue) by oak (subscriber, #2786) [Link]
Doesn't Oracle have it's own version of (RedHat?) Linux with kerneltuned to best performance for Oracle?
As to the previous comment, didn't all those companies have also
their own HW (except Novell?)? In that case having your own OS
was kind of mandatory as back then there was no free OS (like BSD
or Linux) one could adopt and in which community participate.
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Posted Sep 13, 2006 19:07 UTC (Wed) by AJWM (subscriber, #15888) [Link]
Although Oracle won't run on bare hardware, it pretty much treats the OS as a souped up BIOS and does its own filesystems, process monitoring, shared memory management, etc. layered on top of the native OS. Then there are all the Oracle applications that live on top of the RDBMS.
Almost the same with Autodesk -- they have a ton of apps that live atop AutoCAD, along with their proprietary file formats and own dialects of programming languages (Autolisp, eg).
Perhaps "platform" would be a better word than "OS" in the grandparent's context.
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Posted Sep 14, 2006 11:30 UTC (Thu) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link]
Well, yes, all flexible-enough systems turn into platforms eventually. (Emacs, Mozilla...)