{"id":116,"date":"2006-10-26T10:15:06","date_gmt":"2006-10-26T18:15:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.formtek.com\/blog\/?p=116"},"modified":"2006-10-26T10:15:06","modified_gmt":"2006-10-26T18:15:06","slug":"oracle-openworld-unbreakable-linux-50152-not-on-the-horizon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/formtek.com\/blog\/oracle-openworld-unbreakable-linux-50152-not-on-the-horizon\/","title":{"rendered":"Oracle OpenWorld: UnBreakable Linux \/ 5015.2 not on the horizon"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n
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After ringing<\/a> the closing NASDAQ bell on Wednesday at Oracle OpenWorld<\/a>, Larry Ellison<\/a> announced<\/a> that Oracle would begin providing support for Red Hat Linux at half the cost of Red Hat’s\u00a0Linux\u00a0support package.\u00a0 After that announcement, Red Hat stock dropped 16% and costumed Penguins\u00a0started roaming the OpenWorld show floor.\u00a0 Oracle Penguin Baby-on-Board-like car window signs were also scattered through the booths.\u00a0 Oracle’s move to add Linux to their stack had been predicted for some time, but many expected that Ubuntu<\/a> would be acquired.\u00a0<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n

The morning session at the OpenWorld show started out more lackluster.\u00a0 John Wookey<\/a> gave an update on Oracle’s application business.\u00a0 Nothing really new.\u00a0 Oracle reiterated their plan to continue support for the many newly acquired applications that are now part of the Oracle family.\u00a0<\/p>\n

A parallel roadmap for all the products was\u00a0given with no dates.\u00a0 The Fusion project is on-going and SOA\/BPEL provides a mechanism for all of Oracle applications to interact.\u00a0Some have questioned whether Fusion is off-track and has turned out to be a much bigger task than expected — eWeek questioned<\/a> why no Executive-level interviews were allowed during the conference, speculating that Oracle didn’t want to risk putting any attention on possible delays\u00a0of the\u00a0Fusion project.<\/p>\n

The highlight of the Oracle Applications presentation was a customer success story<\/a> presented by Giovanni Contino from Ducati<\/a>\u00a0Motor Holding, an Italian motorcycle company.\u00a0 He\u00a0joked that\u00a0a major\u00a0deciding reason for why Ducati selected Oracle’s eBusiness suite\u00a0was because both Ducati and Oracle use the same shade of red\u00a0in their logos.<\/p>\n

The follow-up keynote<\/a> by Sun’s CEO Jonathan Schwartz<\/a>\u00a0was much more interesting.\u00a0 Schwartz pledged to announce Open Source Java within the next 60 to 90 days.\u00a0\u00a0Open Source Java\u00a0is expected to be released under the OSI license (Open Source Initiative).\u00a0<\/p>\n

Schwartz also touted the 6-million-license mark for downloads of Sun’s Open Source Solaris.\u00a0 He emphasized Sun’s drive towards delivering more power-efficient eco-friendly hardware solutions (“Good for your business\/Good for the Planet”).<\/p>\n

Schwartz also had video footage of Sun’s mobile data center Project BlackBox<\/a> which crams the computing gear of a data center into an 8 foot by 8 foot by 20 foot standard shipping container box.\u00a0 The containers can withstand a shock of nine times the force of gravity.\u00a0 For $3000 the box can be shipped almost anywhere in the US to provide computing power whereever and whenever it is needed.\u00a0 Plug in the electricity, water for cooling, and internet connection, and you are set to go.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

Vendor exhibits sprawled throughout San Francisco’s Convention Moscone West and South Convention buildings.\u00a0 Oracle seemed to be well represented with many booths across all their technologies and applications, and given the proximity to Oracle headquarters, the Oracle\u00a0booths were filled with Oracle developers and product managers eager to explain products at any level.<\/p>\n

I tracked down the Content DB group to check the status from them.\u00a0 Surprisingly they didn’t seem to be positioned as prominently as they were at OpenWorld 2005.\u00a0 One product that was missing from their representation was RM.\u00a0 There was no Records Management DB booth.\u00a0<\/p>\n

I was disappointed to learn that Oracle had removed their name\u00a0from the waiting list to be certified for 5015.2 compliance.\u00a0 I was told that on review of the Oracle RM\u00a0implementation that there were some problems that were discovered and they blamed the 5015.2 spec as being a little\u00a0vague in its specification\/definition.\u00a0 They said that most of the requests they are getting now for\u00a0RM standards\u00a0are related to European MoReq<\/a> rather than 5015.2, so Oracle is now focusing on MoReq.\u00a0 There were no dates for when\u00a0Oracle might again sign up for 5015.2 compliance.\u00a0 It looks like Microsoft has the lead<\/a> on them for 5015.2 certification now.<\/p>\n

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\u00a0 from:\u00a0 SpokesmanReview.com After ringing the closing NASDAQ bell on Wednesday at Oracle OpenWorld, Larry Ellison announced that Oracle would begin providing support for Red Hat Linux at half the cost of Red Hat’s\u00a0Linux\u00a0support package.\u00a0 After that announcement, Red Hat…<\/span><\/p>\n

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