IOUG: Linux To Be Number One Oracle OS

Linux is about to end the Sun Solaris reign as the leading operating system underlying Oracle databases. At least that's the word according to a new Independent Oracle Users Group survey.

Nearly half (well, 44 percent, anyway) of some 800 respondents surveyed by IOUG, said they will use Linux by 2007 vs. 43 percent for Solaris.

It's clear that for several years Oracle has ridden the Linux message but hard. Everyone from Larry Ellison on down has said that Linux, plus commodity (aka cheap) hardware will wring cost out of database implementations. That is all cost, except for that of the database itself.

More recently, however, Oracle has seemed to mend fences with Sun, it's early ally in enterprise computing. Historically, Solaris and Oracle databases have gone together like, well, use your own analogy here.

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Other findings:

A third (34 percent) of respondents plan database migrations in the next 12 months.

26 percent are moving to (drum roll please) SOAs.

25 percent say PeopleSoft apps are king in their shops but nearly a third of that number say they're not sure yet if they'll continue with that choice after Oracle's acquisition of PeopleSoft.

All great food for thought and fodder for a lively discussion the IOUG's Collaborate '06 conference coming April 23 in Nashville.