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Oracle gains some partner support for Unbreakable Linux
April 26, 2007
After Oracle announced its Unbreakable Linux plans I wrote to the world’s 15 largest software vendors (apart from Oracle and Microsoft – I guessed what their responses would be) to ask them whether they planned to support their applications on Oracle Enterprise Linux.
I received only three definitive responses (from Novell, BMC and BEA), all of which could be summed up with “we will if our customers demand it”. Despite the temptation to conclude a lack of support for the Unbreakable Linux plan it was hard to draw any conclusions in the face of such indifference.
Six months on and Oracle is finally in a position to talk about partner support for the plan, announcing a number of IHVs and ISVs who are supporting Oracle Enterprise Linux.
The list of vendors supporting OEL includes: 170 Systems, AppWorx, Egenera, EMC, Emulex, Hitachi Data Systems, LSI, NetApp, Patchlink, Pillar Data Systems, QLogic, and Synoran, as well as KnowledgeTree and SugarCRM.
Earlier in the year there was a bit of a hoo-ha about IBM’s decision not to support any of its software on OEL. Now is appears that the company’s hardware business is taking a different tack.
"As businesses deploy Oracle applications on IBM's System x and BladeCenter systems, we plan to work with Oracle on the Oracle Unbreakable Linux program to support our joint customers with those deployments," stated Doug Balog, vice president, IBM BladeCenter on Oracle’s announcement.
IBM’s endorsement demonstrates momentum for Unbreakable, but also highlights that the fact that the momentum could be stronger. While there are some big name hardware vendors in the list of supporters announced by Oracle, none of the top 15 software vendors (apart from Oracle itself) have announced support for specific applications on OEL.
IHV certifications are good to have, of course, but it is ISV endorsement that will drive adoption outside of Oracle’s database installed base. With all due respect to those ISVs who are on the list, Oracle has some way to go to assemble an ISV partner roster comparable to Red Hat’s.
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