Adopting Linux as a platform has helped change Oracle over the past 15 years from a fragmented, decentralized behemoth to a sleek, consolidated service provider, said Senior VP and CIO Mark Sunday in Oracle’s LinuxCon keynote presentation Friday morning.
In exchange, Oracle also played a large role in shaping Linux, especially in the server space, said Wim Coekaerts, Oracle’s Senior Vice President of Linux and Virtualization Engineering, during the presentation.
Linux is the standard operating system for all of Oracle’s internal business systems and product development as well as the basis for the business services the company offers its customers, he said.
“Everything we do… is done leveraging Linux,” Sunday said.