First Entry
For this first entry I would like to take the time to give an overview of what I would like to discuss going forward. This blogging thing is actually quite an interesting vehicle. Often we end up talking to the press or have press releases in order to broadcast a message to the world. The drawback there is that it generally has to be "big news" for it to get out so we don't have an easy way to present small topics or some interesting information that does not warrant a full paper to be written.
I would like to discuss questions that came up at customer visits, provide feedback on comments that come from reactions to my postings, and provide some hints and tips on architectures, configurations, and technologies. My hope is that we can have both technical entries and some higher-level type of conversations. Feel free to ask anything, and we will do our best to respond.
As many of you know, Oracle has been doing a whole lot on Linux over the last few years--all our products have been ported, but we didn't stop there. The Unbreakable Linux campaign has been a huge success in helping the adoption of Linux in the corporate world, and a lot of our focus has been on the OS itself, not just our products.
We spend a huge effort on testing; across the company thousands of systems run Linux in test or production environments. The hosted business (On Demand) deploys pretty much every server on Linux and so on. It is literally everywhere. There is no doubt that we will continue this and much more going forward. Many good things to come--stay tuned, this is just the beginning.
