Announcement marks the first time a major computing company with Linux ties will compete directly with the Linux seller. Complete OpenWorld coverage: From Dell-AMD to Web 2.0 Stephen Shankland worked ...

On the one hand, Oracle dubbed Red Hat Linux as the de facto enterprise Linux standard. On the other, Oracle now competes full-on with Red Hat for enterprise support dollars with its own Linux support ...

I'd been waiting for Oracle to throw its hat into the ring for the Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) Linux source-code fight. I knew it was only a matter of time. On July 10, Oracle's Edward Screven, ...

Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) now will run fully supported on the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) cloud platform. Although RHEL competes with Oracle Linux, Oracle says it is not stressed about ...

"Our support costs way less than half of what Red Hat's does," said Ellison. Oracle will charge $99 a year to support a two-CPU system with software and updates, Ellison said at a Q&A at Oracle ...

While it wasn’t quite the Linux announcement that had been expected, Oracle’s latest move will definitely see the company butt heads with the leading distributor of the open-source operating system ...

Oracle on Oct. 25 announced that it will provide the same enterprise-class support for Linux as it provides for its database, middleware and applications products. Essentially, this means that Oracle, ...

The association’s stated mission is to encourage the development of RHEL-compatible distributions by providing open and free Enterprise Linux source code, starting later this year with the sources ...

Red Hat's Spectre remediation currently requires new microcode for a complete fix, which leaves most x86 processors vulnerable as they lack this update. Oracle has released new retpoline kernels that ...

Red Hat on Wednesday released Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5, touted its virtualization capabilities and solidified its standing as a leading open source player. With all that momentum, Oracle and its ...

It was nearly two years ago at the 2006 Oracle OpenWorld conference that Oracle CEO Larry Ellison unveiled a plan to have Oracle provide support to Red Hat’s own Linux customers. The controversial ...