Virtualization - Likewise Adds Oracle Linux & Mainframes

Added Oracle Enterprise Linux 4 and 5 to Linux, Unix and Mac Platforms That It Supports On a Microsoft Network

May. 3, 2008 06:00 AM

Likewise, pretty much the de facto standard in cross-platform authentication these days, has added Oracle Enterprise Linux 4 and 5, Oracle’s version of Red Hat, to the list of some 110 Linux, Unix and Mac platforms that it supports on a Microsoft network using Active Directory.

Oracle Linux now claims 2,000 customers give or take.

Ubuntu’s billionaire backer Mark Shuttleworth told The Register that Oracle is either going to have to fork Red Hat or buy Red Hat, if the business proves successful or become strategically important.

Oracle “will do one of those things within three to five years,” he prophesied.

Meanwhile, Likewise has also started supporting mainframes that use either Red Hat or Novell to authenticate to Active Directory.

Published May. 3, 2008— Reads 1,636
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Maureen O'Gara is the Virtualization News Desk editor of SYS-CON Media. She is the publisher of famous "Billygrams" and the editor-in-chief of "Client/Server News" for more than a decade. One of the most respected technology reporters in the business, Maureen can be reached by email at maureen(at)sys-con.com or paperboy(at)g2news.com, and by phone at 516 759-7025.

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