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 has already developed and contributed an open-source clustered file system to Linux. We expect to make additional contributions in the future." ...

The creation of the Open Enterprise Linux Associationon 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 ...

They discussed Oracle’s history with the Linux open-source community and the company’s latest efforts in database-as-a-service and cloud-on-prem interoperability. (* Disclosure below.) ...

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.