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WHY ORACLE LINUX

THE BEST LINUX FOR YOUR ENTERPRISE

Oracle Linux is the best Linux for your enterprise computing needs.

Fast—Delivers best performance; 75% faster than Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Modern—Supports large and small systems; tracks mainline Linux closely and brings the latest innovations to customers
Reliable—Provides data integrity, better security, and improved application uptime
Optimized for Oracle—Built for Oracle Exadata Database Machine, Oracle Exalytics In-Memory Machine, Oracle Exalogic Elastic Cloud, and Oracle Database Appliance
Linux Management and High Availability—Available to Oracle Linux support customers at no additional charge
The Only OS to Offer Zero Downtime Patching—Updates the Linux kernel while it is running without the need to re-boot

Oracle's Linux commitment and leadership
Latest innovations in Oracle Linux: Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel R2 Beta, Ksplice, Btrfs, DTrace, Linux Containers, OCFS2
Oracle Linux 5 and 6 features and technical overview
More than 8,000 customers use Oracle Linux Support
Leading ISVs and partners support Oracle Linux
Enterprise-class support for Linux
Deployment best practices with Oracle Validated Configurations
Calculate your cost savings with Oracle Linux
Find out why you should choose Oracle Linux over Red Hat

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Certify your applications with Oracle Linux
Build Oracle VM Templates with Oracle Linux JeOS (Just Enough OS)
Oracle Linux support is included with Sun x86 Server support
See the complete list of certified hardware with Oracle Linux

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How Dell Migrated from SUSE Linux to Oracle Linux
Adriatic Slovenica implements Oracle Linux
SK Telekom Uses Oracle Linux Support to Ensure Availability of Its Database Infrastructure
BT Chooses Oracle Linux for Its Cloud (video, 2 min.)
BT Chooses Oracle Linux for Its Cloud

BT's CTO, Surren Partabh, explains why they chose Oracle Linux with Premium support, and how Oracle Linux integrates to BT's application and cloud environment.

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Data sheet: Ksplice (PDF)
FAQ: Ksplice
Data sheet: Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel for Oracle Linux (PDF)
FAQ: Oracle Linux (PDF)
Data sheet: Unbreakable Linux Network (PDF)
FAQ: Oracle Clusterware for Oracle Linux

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MySQL 5.5 Benchmark on Oracle Linux
Preventing Silent Data Corruption (PDF)
Oracle Linux (PDF)
Oracle Linux Support (PDF)
Unbreakable Linux Network (PDF)
Edison Group: True Enterprise-Quality Linux Support

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Ensuring Data Integrity (MP3)
Blazing Performance on Linux (MP3)
Top 10 Reasons to Migrate from Red Hat to Oracle Linux (MP3)
Btrfs Update (MP3)
OCFS2 Features and Benefits (MP3)
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Videos

A tour of the Btrfs file system presented by Avi Miller (video, 48:52 min.)
Edward Screven's Keynote about Oracle Linux and Oracle VM (OOW'11) (video, 40 min.)
Edward Screven's Keynote about Oracle Linux and Oracle VM (OOW'11)

Oracle EVP John Fowler and Chief Corporate Architect Edward Screven's keynote at Oracle OpenWorld 2011
Wim Coekaerts talks about the latest Oracle Linux features (OOW'11) (video, 11 min.)
Wim Coekaerts talks about the latest Oracle Linux features (OOW'11)

OTN's Todd Trichler interviews Wim Coekaerts, SVP of Oracle Linux and Virtualization
Mitigating Silent Data Corruption (video, 14 min.)
Mitigating Silent Data Corruption

Mitigating Silent Data Corruption in your Database with the Oracle T10-PI Data Integrity Solution using Oracle Linux and Emulex HBA products
Oracle Linux and Virtualization Training (video, 8 min.)
Oracle Linux and Virtualization Training

This presentation describes the training available for Oracle Linux as well as Oracle's VM Server Products, VM Server for x86 and Oracle VM Server for SPARC.

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