So it does not solve all of the users’ problems, but by George it does offer a great start! For the time being I will have to watch this closely. And besides, it’s great to see Oracle back in the headlines again.

Oracle is catering to the Linux-leery, announcing June 12 the Oracle Validated Configuration program to provide pre-tested architectures for running Oracle on Linux.

The free offering includes specs for common mixes of software, hardware, storage and networking.

The architectures are designed to lift the burden of pricey testing off of customers’ backs and get those customers up and running faster, while also helping to improve performance, scalability and reliability.

Wim Coekaerts, the company’s senior director of Linux Engineering, said the program is a natural outgrowth of Oracle’s Linux test lab, which it set up a few years back to test the Linux kernel…. Source: eWeek