Simon Coter

Senior Director, Oracle Linux and Virtualization Product Management & Engineering

A 20-years Oracle veteran, Simon Coter is an experienced product manager and open source community member. He leads a team responsible for the product management and enginerring of several Oracle Linux and Virtualization offerings, including Oracle Linux, Oracle Cloud Native Environment, Oracle Linux KVM, Oracle Linux Virtualization Manager and VirtualBox. Prior to this, Simon was a technical consultant focused on project management, architectures definition, sizing and implementation, best practices, and technical references for customers.

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Recent Blogs

Webinar slides: Discover a cost-effective, high-performance ...

As promised to the big audience we had during the two webinars dedicated to Oracle Linux Virtualization, in this blog you can find the slides myself and John Priest used during the sessions.

Oracle Linux 10 Developer Preview

Oracle Linux 10 Developer Preview is public available for download; the same in an anticipation of the future Oracle Linux 10 GA release.

Oracle VirtualBox 7.1.6 is now available

Available today, maintenance release 7.1.6 introduces initial support for Linux Kernel 6.13 and includes different bug fixes for Linux, Windows and macOS.

Oracle Linux and Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel (UEK) Releases

I've decided to create this blog entry just to share Oracle Linux and UEK releases, how those are associated and which UEK releases are available on different OL versions. So, maybe, this article could be useless for many people who already know which UEK releases are available on each OL release.

Keep your CentOS 7 alive with Oracle Linux updates

This article demonstrates the main two options to keep your CentOS 7 system alive with Oracle Linux updates. The guide will show how-to receive Oracle Linux patches for free from yum.oracle.com (available until the end of December, 2024) or receive the same patches from linux.oracle.com (requires support subscription for Oracle Linux) until December, 2024 to then quickly configure the same to receive updates as part of Extended Support.

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