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Tue, 18 Mar 2003

Mr Linux at Oracle #
There is a fairly insightful interview of Wim Coekaerts of Oracle on ZDNet's news page. Mr. Coekaerts is the Linux guru for Oracle and is internally called Mr Linux. The article discusses the balancing act Coekaerts and Oracle have to do in keeping true to the open source nature of Linux while enabling their closed source application to maximize its market potential.

I was surprised to learn that Oracle has a group of 1000 engineers working on the Linux kernel whose code in turn gets released back into the community. It really is awesome when you think of the magnitude of the Linux development community. And all of that kernel work flows through one man... Mr Torvalds. |/open-source|