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 ...

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 ...

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 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.

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 ...

"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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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.