The relative cost of SQL Server running in a data center compared to Oracle 10g running on Linux in the data center is now roughly equal, given Linux' low cost, said Stuart Williams, analyst with Technology Business Research, a Hampton, N.H.-based research firm.
"Oracle just cut Microsoft off at the pass," he said.
SQL Server in the enterprise relies on the ever-thickening Microsoft software stack, he noted.
Oracle has been in the Linux camp since 1998, when it ported its flagship database to the open-source operating system. Four years later, it commited to fix "priority one" bugs in the Linux kernel and provided those fixes back to the community.
There is a big difference between the support announced today and that which was previously offered, said Ed Screven, Oracle's chief corporate architect.
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