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Announcements
July 17, 2013
Oracle Continues Linux Leadership with 80% Year over Year Growth for Oracle Linux
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to Gartner (March 2013), Oracle Linux placed in the top three in the
Linux server operating system market, growing more than 80 percent
year-over-year in 2012, which outpaced the overall Linux server
operating system market growth(1). - Recent important announcements with Dell, Microsoft, and Salesforce.com, around support for Oracle Linux, further demonstrate Oracle Linux momentum with partners.
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Linux is used by thousands of enterprise customers across industries
around the world. Oracle Linux, the only Linux distribution for Oracle
Engineered Systems, including Oracle Exadata Database Machine, Oracle Exalogic Elastic Cloud, Oracle Exalytics In-Memory Machine, Oracle Big Data Appliance, and Oracle Database Appliance, is the choice for the majority of such customer deployments.
“Epsilon offers a broad array of data-driven, multichannel marketing
solutions for many of the biggest brands in the world. Our information
systems have been experiencing substantial growth year-over-year, with
increased demand for real-time reporting, and high performance
transaction processing. To enable customers to interact with a brand in a
more dynamic real-time manner, we knew our infrastructure had to be
comprehensive, well integrated and scalable. With our Oracle Exadata
Database Machines running Oracle Linux, we are achieving transactional
processing speeds that were previously not attainable. Oracle’s
technologies and world-class support have been instrumental in enabling
us to deliver new value-add services and greater efficiency for
clients,” said Jeff White, vice president, technology, strategic
database services at Epsilon.
Read the full press release for details.