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Breaking News - Operating Systems & Middleware:
Oracle Builds Largest Linux-Based Development Organization
With more than 9,000 developers slated to create Oracle products on the Linux
operating system, Oracle will soon boast the largest Linux-based development
organization in the world.
The company began the global initiative last year with the migration of 5,000
developers to Linux, and anticipates that by the end of 2004, its core
development team worldwide will be leveraging the operating system. With
Linux, Oracle developers have a broader choice of hardware platforms and can
use cheap, fast hardware in a grid environment to help increase productivity
and enhance testing capabilities.
"Over the past year, Linux adoption has become widespread," said Wim
Coekaerts, director of Linux Engineering at Oracle Corp. "Companies are now
using Linux for everything from product development to running mission
critical systems and now on the desktop. By building all of our products on
Linux, we've decreased our own development costs, increased productivity and
gained greater insight into what our customers experience running Oracle on
Linux. This has enabled us to be more responsive and anticipate customer
needs."
The global migration of Oracle's core development team to Linux illustrates
the momentum it has gained in the enterprise and is a testament to Oracle's
ongoing investment in the operating system. More importantly, Oracle's support
of Linux is helping organizations realize the benefits of low-cost,
standards-based hardware. This commitment is evidenced through a number of
Oracle initiatives, including:
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