Monday, April 17, 2006

Is Oracle ogling Linux?

Larry Ellison has never shied away from a fight. Now he's apparently looking at taking on Microsoft in the operating system arena, by going the Linux route.

Ellison told the Financial Times that he was considering launching a version of the Linux operating system, and has looked into buying either Red Hat or Novell, the two companies which dominate the Linux market.

"I'd like to have a complete stack," he told the paper. "We're missing an operating system. You could argue that it makes a lot of sense for us to look at distributing and supporting Linux."

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