There's a nasty little war afoot over the future of the operating system. In one corner you have the operating system vendors. They're building in virtualization, for example. This increases the depth ...

Oracle Corp. this week is releasing the underlying code to software it developed to allow databases to be better managed on clusters of Linux servers. The company on Wednesday plans to post online the ...

Software giant's bid to steal Red Hat's business hurts Red Hat, but Oracle has a long way to go before proving its Linux chops. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and wrote about ...

Oracle said Thursday that rival hardware vendors Dell and Hewlett-Packard intend to certify and resell its Solaris and Enterprise Linux operating systems as well as Oracle VM on their x86 servers.

Reporters typically don't pay much mind to vendor endorsers of any particular press release, but in this case Oracle lined up some interesting signatories: Executives from IBM (Bill Zeitler), Dell ...

Oracle said Thursday that rival hardware vendors Dell and Hewlett-Packard intend to certify and resell its Solaris and Enterprise Linux operating systems as well as Oracle VM on their x86 servers. The ...