Dell and HP To Sell Oracle Operating Systems

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Posted by Soulskill on Friday July 30, 2010 @01:55PM
from the cross-contamination dept.

angry tapir writes "Oracle has announced 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 announcement 'demonstrates Oracle's commitment to openness,' company co-president Charles Phillips said in a statement."

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Oracle Managment (Score:2, Funny)

by helix2301 (1105613) writes: on Friday July 30, 2010 @02:15PM (#33086440) Homepage

This is another example of great management by Oracle. They want to sell a server product so they team with HP and Dell this is a great move. This idea did wonders for Red Hat and Suse I hope it does the same for Oracle. Plus since HP and Dell already ship Linux I am sure they will be happy to ship Unix.

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Re:Oracle sucks. (Score:2, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Friday July 30, 2010 @02:27PM (#33086592)

To be fair, Sun was doing a fine job of flushing themselves down the toilet without Oracle's help. Oracle has just reached for the plunger...

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Re:Friend/ employee hates Oracle (Score:5, Funny)

by CoreDump (1715) writes: on Friday July 30, 2010 @05:35PM (#33089790) Homepage Journal

So, you use Solaris? Me too. And looking at alternatives now. It's a shame really, as the most stable gear I've run has been Solaris on Sparc.

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