Oracle buys Ksplice, a zero-downtime developer

    Infoworld Online believes that this move demonstrates Oracle’s desire to compete with companies like Red Hat.

    So, on Thursday it was officially announced that the giant Oracle made the purchase of Ksplice, the creator of the technology that allows administrators to install important security updates (including kernel updates) on Linux-based servers without a subsequent reboot. Details of the transaction were not announced.

    The Oracle website posted news that the Internet giant plans to be the only corporation that will provide customers with zero-downtime technology, which will be delivered by default to Oracle Linux premium customers (referring to those who bought Oracle Linux Premier Support).

    Oracle executives represented by the CEO and senior vice president of the department responsible for the OS: “Already, the company has more than 7,000 corporate users of Oracle Linux. With the introduction of Ksplice, this number should increase significantly. ”

    In the e-mail newsletter, Ksplice subscribers are told that separately no zero downtime technology will be delivered from now on. It can only be purchased with Oracle Linux Premier Support. In particular, Ksplice no longer supports RHEL, SuSe, CentOS.

    Also popular now: