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 ...

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 ...

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, Inc., a leading provider of open source solutions, and Oracle are forming a multi-stage alliance to offer customers a greater choice of operating systems to run on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure ...

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 ...

RALEIGH – Red Hat and Oracle a teaming up to offer Red Hat’s Enterprise Linux to Oracle’s cloud infrastructure offerings, the companies announced Wednesday. Financial terms weren’t disclosed. The deal ...

Red Hat has decided it's no going to be Mr. Nice Linux anymore for Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) clone makers such as Oracle and CentOS . Sure, in open-source, you share the code. That's rule one.

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 ...

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 ...

Oracle made a weird announcement at its Oracle OpenWorld love-fest and trade-show. The company announced that it was releasing its own Linux: the Oracle’s Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel for Oracle ...

The Red Hat family of operating systems addressed Meltdown and Spectre in its v3.10 kernel quickly, but relied too much upon Intel's flawed microcode and was forced to revert from a complete solution.