Oracle 11g Will Ship for Linux… and Linux only, for now

I know; full disclosure — yes, I work here.

But, I don’t sell anything. So, move on and read the news.

The nutshell? The Oracle 11g database will ship this month (okay, it will ship “probably in August”), and it will do so on Linux — “Oracle wouldn’t comment on when 11g would be available for the other operating systems the database will support including Microsoft Corp.’s Windows.”

As an unabashed Linux fanatic, that’s just sort of cool. Doesn’t mean too much in the long run, because Oracle will, of course, release a Windows version (I assume — I certainly wouldn’t know).

At any rate — yay, Linux. Let’s go have some breakfast.