Oracle Makes Oracle Linux More Competitive

By Maureen O'Gara	Article Rating:
July 24, 2011 04:00 PM EDT	Reads:	1,251

Oracle has bought Ksplice for its little-heard-from Linux operation. Price was not disclosed.

The Cambridge, Massachusetts start-up offers zero downtime updating, which is supposed to increase the security, reliability, availability and general likeability of Oracle Linux by letting customers apply or delete security updates, diagnostics patches and critical bug fixes without rebooting.

Oracle expects the widgetry to distinguish it from Red Hat (from which Oracle Linux derives) and SUSE, which Ksplice will not support.

It'll be a no-cost standard feature of Oracle Linux Premier Support.

Reportedly Ksplice never took a penny from the VCs. Started in 2008, it delivered its first subscription products last year and collected a reported 700 customers.

Oracle claims 7,000 customers for its Linux.

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