SAN FRANCISCO--Oracle will sell support to Red Hat Linux customers and offer its own free clone of the open-source operating system, posing a major competitive challenge to the leading Linux seller.

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 ...

Red Hat continues to grow at the expense of Oracle's Linux business. According to a Piper Jaffray survey, enterprises go with trusted brands, especially in times of economic uncertainty. Matt Asay is ...

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 ...

SAN FRANCISCO – Red Hat has been working with Oracle to improve the desktop version of Red Hat’s Linux operating system, with a view to providing an enterprise-class environment that will run ...

Red Hat and Oracle plan to announce on Thursday that the companies have teamed to get Linux evaluated under the Common Criteria, a certification that could open doors for the broader use of ...

Bangalore: Oracle had launched Oracle Enterprise Linux (OEL) in order to compete with Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) and to strengthen its position in the market. But even heavy discounts and ...

Red Hat Inc. today announced a nonexclusive alliance with Oracle Corp. under which Red Hat Enterprise Linux will become a supported operating system on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure. IBM-owned Red Hat ...

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 ...

Database vendor Oracle may be eyeing Ubuntu as a potential partner as the company's Linux strategy continues to unfold. After acquiring open source database companies Sleepycat and Innobase earlier ...

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 ...

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 ...