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		mseebach on July 17, 2009 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Today Was The Last Day of Sun Microsystems Java was the reason for Oracle to take over Sun (OK, also the hardware). Since Oracles commitment to open source is, "yeah, sure, Oracle will run on Linux. ONE version of ONE distro, but, yeah, Linux", this is more likely than ever to trigger a community-fork of Java, backed by IBM.

nailer on July 19, 2009 [–]

Oracle runs on both RHEL (and Oracle's crappy respin) and SLES. Albeit the installer is broken and packages are only provided for Express.

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