Dell-Oracle alliance pushes Linux in China (News.com) [LWN.net]

Dell and Oracle are working together to promote Linux-based database systems in China. "Dell and Oracle executives said the tie-up, which tacks Linux-based Oracle software onto Dell computer servers, would edge out competing platforms, but they declined to say how it would help them expand market share. Nonetheless, the alliance could threaten Microsoft and its Windows dominance because the Chinese government has been pushing for a national standard on open-source software to counter the reign of Windows in recent years."

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Dell-Oracle alliance pushes Linux in China (News.com)

Posted Mar 19, 2004 3:03 UTC (Fri) by Spike (guest, #14160) [Link]

Where do I download the source for Oracle 9i / 10g ?

Dell-Oracle alliance pushes Linux in China (News.com)

Posted Mar 19, 2004 3:10 UTC (Fri) by leandro (subscriber, #1460) [Link]

> Where do I download the source for Oracle 9i

Here.

Dell-Oracle alliance pushes Linux in China (News.com)

Posted Mar 19, 2004 14:01 UTC (Fri) by ballombe (subscriber, #9523) [Link]

Oracle doesn't run on top of Windows, so I don't see Microsoft loosing
market share with this deal. This is more a thread to proprietary UNIX
vendors like SCO.

Dell-Oracle alliance pushes Linux in China (News.com)

Posted Mar 19, 2004 14:51 UTC (Fri) by drathos (guest, #6454) [Link]

What are you talking about?

Oracle does run on Windows (better than MS SQL Server, IMHO). 10g may not be released for Windows yet, but you can still get a free (for development/testing purposes) copy of 9i here with a free OTN account.

Dell-Oracle alliance pushes Linux in China (News.com)

Posted Mar 19, 2004 16:51 UTC (Fri) by jedidiah (guest, #20319) [Link]

Try proprietary Unix vendors like SUN. Oracle hasn't been much of a going concern on SCO for quite some time now. I am not sure if it ever was.

Now, the problem with your thesis is the HIGH COST of Oracle itself. It now even dwarfs the cost of the Sun hardware it might run on. So the notion that anyone is going to save themselves lots of money by running Oracle on Linux is rather laughable. This is especially true if they are running clustered Oracle (RAC).

If you can afford Oracle, the cost savings of Linux aren't very interesting.