Oracle acquires Ksplice
Oracle acquires Ksplice
[Announcements] Posted Jul 21, 2011 22:41 UTC (Thu) by corbet
Ksplice is a mechanism for applying patches to running kernels without the
need to bring the system down; LWN covered
it back in 2008. Now the company that was built around this technology
has been
acquired by Oracle, which plans to offer the service with its
enterprise distribution. "The addition of Ksplice's technology will
increase the security, reliability and availability of Oracle Linux by
enabling customers to apply security updates, diagnostics patches and
critical bug fixes without rebooting.
"