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Today's focus: Database options widen for Linux users
By Phil Hochmuth
There was good news for Linux enthusiasts from the database
front last week, as enterprise Linux suppliers and database
vendors made some deals.
Oracle announced that its key wares for business data centers -
database software, clustering tools and collaboration apps -
will now run on Novell's SuSE Enterprise Linux 9.
The move gives Oracle another major Linux distro to play with -
it was primarily associated with Red Hat in the past. It also
gives Novell's emerging SuSE Linux platform a major boost as an
alternative to Unix and Red Hat Linux in data centers. SuSE has
a slight edge on Red Hat as it is, since its introduction of a
Linux version based on the 2.6 kernel this summer. Red Hat is
expected to have a 2.6 kernel for enterprises next quarter.
In another, more curious announcement, IBM said it would start
supporting Sybase database products on its Linux servers. This
is a bit weird, since IBM's DB2 is a direct competitor to
Sybase's Adaptive Server Enterprise (ASE) offering. But the move
is not that much of a stretch, since IBM had previously resold
Sybase on its AIX Unix boxes.
IDC says that the market for Linux database software licenses
will be up by around 150% this year, reaching $522 million. The
research firm says a migration from Unix to Linux servers for
running databases is the main driver