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Oracle's 'Mr. Linux' (News.com)

[Posted March 18, 2003 by ris]

News.com talks with Wim Coekaerts about Oracle on Linux. "How many people do you have working on Linux at Oracle? If you talk about Linux kernel stuff, there are about 1,000 people that actually do development work. It's been that way for a long time, but we just have not been very public about it. Linux is Unix. When you have a lot of Unix competency in your company, it's really very easy to switch and doesn't take too long." (Thanks to Ashwin N)

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Posted Mar 19, 2003 3:56 UTC (Wed) by einstein (subscriber, #2052) [Link]

Overall a competent article but for one hilarious blooper -

"But particularly with Linux because it doesn't scale.
You can buy a 64-processor server that runs Solaris."

Um, hello? earth to CNET? The interviewer was apparently
unaware that you can also buy a 64 way linux server...

http://www.sgi.com/newsroom/press_releases/2003/january/best_of_show.html

Oracle's 'Mr. Linux' (News.com)

Posted Mar 20, 2003 16:27 UTC (Thu) by bcrl (subscriber, #5934) [Link]

CNet did a horrific job editing this piece. Talking to Wim, he's truely horrified how they misquoted him.

Oracle's 'Mr. Linux' (News.com)

Posted Mar 19, 2003 16:29 UTC (Wed) by Baylink (guest, #755) [Link]

I especially liked:

> Isn't that a contradiction?
>
> It's a nice arrangement. We want SuSE, and Red Hat and United Linux to use
> all that stuff so that their next versions run better on Oracle.

"Run better on Oracle", huh?

Well, that phrasing tells me that Larry-boy's Reality Distortion Field is still in full effect out there on the Left Coast. Um, Wim? We usually phrase that "So Oracle will run better on them."

Oracle's 'Mr. Linux' (News.com)

Posted Mar 28, 2003 23:27 UTC (Fri) by barrygould (guest, #4774) [Link]

If Oracle has "1000 people doing linux kernel work" then why aren't they making more major contributions to the kernel... instead of asking for kernel feature x, why aren't they providing patches for it?