Jul 24, 2011

Oracle's acquisition of Linux management technology company Ksplice

Oracle announced on Thursday, it had acquired Ksplice Linux management technology company. The company's technology enables Linux custom new era hats administrators with critical security patches without rebooting the system. This acquisition terms not disclosed.

Oracle said Ksplice provides "zero-off" capability will enhance Oracle's Enterprise Linux kernel and becomes Oracle Unbreakable Linux Advanced technology to support a standard feature in the product. custom new era hats Users will be able to avoid that occurs when you install a Linux kernel security updates every month "expensive and disruptive" system restart.

Oracle obviously expect the capacity to use Ksplice custom new era hats as Linux technical support contract in a competitive differentiation factors. Rivals such as Red Hat does not have this feature.

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