Open source is important to Oracle’s middleware strategy, according to Thomas Kurian, Oracle senior vice president of server technologies development. He was on Tuesday’s call with Phillips.

Oracle is a major backer of the Linux operating system -- its 10g grid databases are designed to combine the processing muscle of many commodity x86 hardware servers, running either Linux or Windows.

Oracle initially became involved in Linux to make Oracle products that ran on the Linux operating system work better. However, none of its contributions are proprietary — they are open and ...

The creation of the Open Enterprise Linux Association on Aug. 10 shows Oracle, SUSE and CIQ (maker of RockyLinux, which is based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux) taking a stance to promote open source ...

While Oracle previously relied on publicly released RHEL source code to maintain this compatibility, changes in IBM’s policies may raise potential compatibility issues post Oracle Linux 9.2.

The Linux Foundation is one of the biggest, most respected open-source organizations and has successfully kept the Linux operating system vendor-neutral for two decades. It also handles many other ...

Database heavyweight Oracle has acquired Innobase Oy, a privately held Finnish company with close ties to open-source database company MySQL. Terms of the deal, which was announced Friday, were ...

The only reason Oracle supports Linux is because there is one company that they probably have a deeper hatred of than open source. That’s Microsoft. Linux support was a way for Larry Ellison to ...

Once it acquires Sun, Oracle will be the largest sponsor of open source projects people use every day. We're talking Java, we're talking mySQL, we're talking OpenOffice.org.