Embedding Open Source

Overview

Oracle's role in open source development has been a well-kept secret. It's also the reason for this column: To inform the user about Oracle's commitment to open source software - a commitment measured by significant investments in ongoing development and support across a wide variety of initiatives. As ever, Oracle is driven by customer demand for choice, flexibility, and a lower cost of computing. In addition to contributing to many open standards and creating products that implement those standards, Oracle invests significant resources in developing, testing, optimizing, supporting, and contributing to open source technologies such as Linux, PHP, Apache, Eclipse, Oracle Berkeley DB, and InnoDB.