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By Paul Krill
InfoWorld Electric
Posted at 4:00 PM PT, Jul 17, 1998
In a sudden turnabout, Oracle will indeed port its Oracle8 database to the Linux operating system. The company earlier this month said it had no such plans but has had a change of heart based on a recent groundswell of support for the open-source operating system.
A formal announcement is planned for Tuesday, an Oracle representative said.
"In the last couple of weeks, there's been this huge groundswell for Linux," the representative said.
A version of Oracle8 for Linux on the Intel platform is planned for shipment by March 1999. Support for other hardware platforms is likely to follow.
Oracle would follow Informix, which is also planning to announce Linux support next week. Oracle has had its database running on Linux in its labs, however.
The company expects to sell a "huge volume" of its database for Linux based on the recent growth of Linux.
"It'll just be like porting to another platform," the representative said.
Oracle Corp., in Redwood Shores, Calif., can be reached at (650) 506-7000 or oracle.com.
Paul Krill is a senior editor for InfoWorld.
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