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Oracle Experiencing A Total Eclipse

Oracle and open source together are often cause for confusion, says William Hurley. Hurley talks about Omar Tazi's clarifications of Oracle's association with open source. Here are a few points he discusses:

Unbreakable Linux Is NOT A Distribution
General perception that Oracle has created their own distribution of Linux is not true. Oracle customers are just looking to blame Oracle for Linux fits their “one throat to choke” requirements, says Hurley. "Oracle Unbreakable Linux is simply a support program that provides enterprises with world-class, global support for Linux."

Their Developers Depend On Linux
More than 9,000 Oracle developers use Linux, and it speaks volumes about Linux’s stability in an enterprise class development environment, says Hurley.

Linux Powers Their Business
Tazi's presentation also mentioned that most of Oracle's key servers run Linux, it powers everything from Oracle.com and demo systems to the company’s financial backend and development organization.

They’re Experiencing A Total Eclipse
Oracle has a focused Eclipse strategy, and they want to accelerate the adoption of technologies like EJB3/JPA, JavaServer Faces, and BPEL. Tazi called the basis for this vision “Productivity with Choice”, that is making application development for the Oracle platform as easy as possible—regardless of IDE. Oracle recently joined the Eclipse Foundation as a board member and Strategic Developer, donating it Java persistence framework and Oracle TopLink.

They Created Dali
Dali project (which is under incubation in the Eclipse Web Tools Platform (WTP)) is a part of its Eclipse strategy, which supports a number of different JPA development and deployment scenarios including EJB, Web, and plain old Java. This includes JPA support for Eclipse, and deployment of Object-Relational (O/R) mappings for JPA Entities (JSR 220).

Hurley says Tazi gave a convincing presentation making clear that open source is a "tactical consideration" for the company. "The way I see it, Oracle gets open source better than most large companies. It’s not a strategy-of-the-month, it’s something Omar and company eat, breath, and sleep with every day, and it’s at the heart of their business," he concludes.

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