There's a nasty little war afoot over the future of the operating system. In one corner you have the operating system vendors. They're building in virtualization, for example. This increases the depth ...

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Software giant's bid to steal Red Hat's business hurts Red Hat, but Oracle has a long way to go before proving its Linux chops. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and wrote about ...

Linux is a tried-and-true, open-source operating system released in 1991 for computers, but its use has expanded to underpin systems for cars, phones, web servers and, more recently, networking gear.

Reporters typically don't pay much mind to vendor endorsers of any particular press release, but in this case Oracle lined up some interesting signatories: Executives from IBM (Bill Zeitler), Dell ...