14 augustus 2002 - Oracle Corporation, 's werelds grootste leverancier van bedrijfssoftware kondigt aan dat het haar ondersteuning van Linux uit zal breiden door, voor de eerste keer, Oracle's broncode voor een nieuw cluster file systeem op Linux vrij te geven. De ontwikkelaarseditie van het nieuwe cluster file systeem voor Linux is direct te downloaden van Oracle’s online community, Oracle Technology Network (OTN) en zal Oracle9i Real Application Clusters klanten helpen het beheer van hun clustered database systeem te vereenvoudigen.
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ORACLE ANNOUNCES NEW CLUSTERED FILE SYSTEM FOR LINUX; FURTHERS COMMITMENT TO MAKING LINUX ENTERPRISE READY
New open source Code For Linux Available On Oracle Technology Network
August 14, 2002 – Oracle Corp, the world’s largest enterprise software company, today announced that it continues to strengthen the company’s commitment to Linux by releasing – for the first time – Oracle source code for a new cluster file system on Linux. Immediately downloadable from Oracle’s online community, Oracle Technology Network (OTN), the developer’s release of the new cluster file system for Linux is expected to help Oracle9i Real Application Clusters customers simplify management of their clustered database systems. As the first company to offer a commercially available database and application server for Linux, Oracle today reaffirms its leadership in meeting developer demand for products on Linux and underscores the company’s commitment to Linux as a low-cost, reliable, enterprise ready platform.
"By contributing source code for the Oracle Cluster File System under the General Public License, Oracle accelerates the development of key enterprise-class clustering technologies into the Linux kernel and helps build a truly open solution in this fast growing area," said Alan Cox, Systems Engineer and Fellow at Red Hat. "This announcement reinforces Oracle’s strong commitment both to Linux and to building the best Internet software available for the open source community."
According to industry analyst firm International Data Corp. (IDC), Linux is the fastest growing platform and is expected to grow 174 percent to $5.9 billion by 2006. This projection, along with the high rate of Linux downloads recorded off OTN show widespread support for Linux among the development community. Software download statistics from OTN echo this continued momentum. In the past year, requests for Oracle’s database and application server software on Linux have increased twelve-fold. Since its release in June 2002, more than 68,000 copies of Oracle9i Database Release 2 on Linux have been recorded off OTN.
"Over the years, Oracle has been working closely with the Linux community to make Linux a scalable and reliable platform for running enterprise-class databases," said Andrew Mendelsohn, senior vice president of Database Technologies at Oracle Corporation. "The release of our Cluster File System code to the open-source community is another major step in this direction. We see high demand for our products on Linux and will continue to ensure that all our products run extremely well on the Linux platform"