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Linux is a family of open source Unix-like operating systems based on the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released on September 17, 1991 by Linus Torvalds. Linux is typically packaged in a Linux distribution (or distro for short).

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Oracle: Keep Linux Open and Free—We Can’t Afford Not To (www.oracle.com)

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Oracle responds to Red Hat

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[–] CountVon@sh.itjust.works 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Anyone who uses Oracle Cloud is either directly or indirectly using Oracle Linux. Oracle Cloud is ~2% of the cloud market, so it's small compared to the big three (AWS ~32%, Azure ~23%, GCP ~10% according to this report) but 2% of a very big market (~$237 billion total estimated for 2023) is still a significant user base.

From my own work, most of the Oracle Cloud adoption I see appears to be driven by favourable prices for Exadata Cloud as compared to purchasing on-prem Exadata hardware. Oracle Linux is also baked into Exadata "Cloud-at-Customer", which has essentially the same cloud control plane but the hardware and all data lives on-prem at the customer's site. That seems fairly popular with customers who want Exadata performance but can't allow their data to leave their premises for security reasons.

[–] Zeth0s@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I am happy I don't have anything to do with oracle...

[–] CountVon@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago

Believe me, there are certainly days when I wish I didn't have anything to do with Oracle. 🙃