Tuesday, 27 March 2007

Oracle Claims Yahoo as Linux Customer

Oracle CEO Larry Ellison has revealed that the company has a new Linux client in the form of Yahoo. Ellison apparently insinuated that Yahoo has replaced RedHat. However, Red Hat and Yahoo both said that Yahoo has not replaced Red Hat.

On the other hand, Ellison stated, "We've already signed a number of support contracts, some for over half a million dollars. And Oracle has displaced Red Hat at Yahoo and numerous other customer sites as their Linux support supplier".

"Our current infrastructure leverages both Red Hat and Oracle Linux products," Laurie Mann, Yahoo's vice president of engineering, said in a statement. And Red Hat spokeswoman Leigh Day added, "Red Hat and Yahoo continue to enjoy a fruitful relationship."

"We're not going to build the Linux business overnight, but we will build it," Ellison said. "We're in the early days of our Linux support business, but we're off to a very solid start. Our Linux support service is up and running well. Dell, HP (Hewlett-Packard) and CDW (a computer products reseller) are on board to resell Oracle Enterprise Linux."