Six years ago, Oracle announced support for Linux, perhaps singlehandedly sparking the widespread adoption of Linux in the enterprise. Today, Oracle’s Linux market share is growing by leaps and bounds, backed by the elegance, scalability, and low cost of Linux application clusters.
Chief technology officers of Fortune 1000 companies are constantly challenged to solve one overwhelming problem: boost productivity and reduce overall costs. Indeed, most of a CTO’s time is spent focused on that very quandary, providing guidance and solutions to company staff and upper management.
So, it’s no wonder that Linux and many other open source technologies have become so popular in the enterprise. In many cases, open source offers the same or greater power than equivalent commercial solutions at just a fraction of the cost. Instead of expensive licenses, annual maintenance subscriptions, and proprietary hardware, CTOs are opting for open source software and standardized, off-the-shelf, commodity hardware.
Today, the most common migration to standards (de facto or otherwise) replaces Solaris, Sun ONE, and Sun hardware with Linux, Apache, and Dell blades. Not only is the latter combination more scalable, the hardware arrives in days instead of weeks (or even months, when Sun closes down for the summer). Another common migration replaces BEA’s Weblogic, ATG’s Dynamo, or IBM’s WebSphere with Tomcat and JBoss.
Yet another popular migration runs Oracle on Linux, eschewing vendor-specific operating systems and hardware. Six years ago, Oracle announced support for Linux, perhaps singlehandedly sparking the widespread adoption of Linux in the enterprise. Today, Oracle’s Linux market share is growing by leaps and bounds, fueled by its “Unbreakable” marketing strategy and backed by the elegance, scalability, and low cost of real application clusters.
Because Linux is like Unix, is scalable via redundant…
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