Open Source at Oracle

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Featured open source projects

As one of the founding members of the Linux Foundation, the Eclipse Foundation, and the Open Enterprise Linux Association, to name just a few, Oracle has a proud open source track record. Check out a featured subset of Oracle’s contributions.

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OCTOBER 24, 2024

Right-Sizing GPU and CPU resources for training and inferencing using Kubernetes

Sanjay Basu, Senior Director, Cloud Engineering
Victor Agreda, DevRel Writer & Content Strategist

Learn how to harness advances in Kubernetes to optimize resource allocation by prioritizing workloads dynamically and efficiently based on need.

Read the full article

Open Source FAQ

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    • How long has Oracle been involved with Open Source?

      Oracle’s commitment to open source began long ago, in 1998. Today, Oracle is involved in many major open-source projects, including Linux, MySQL, OpenJDK, GraalVM, VirtualBox, and others. It is also one of the founding members of the Linux Foundation, the Eclipse Foundation, Open Enterprise Linux Association, and the Java Community Process.

    • How active is Oracle with Open Source? and where can I find more information on Oracle?

      Our open-source development takes place on GitHub - Our projects receive more than 3,000 pull requests every month, across 1,400+ repositories from 5,000+ contributors.

    • Where can I find a list of Oracle GitHub organizations?

      Comprehensive details can be found on Oracle's GitHub

    • What is the ‘Oracle Contributor Agreement’ and why is it important?

      The Oracle Contributor Agreement gives Oracle and the contributor joint copyright interests in the code. The contributor retains copyrights while also granting those rights to Oracle as the project sponsor. You only need to sign the OCA once to cover all changes that you might contribute to any Oracle-sponsored open-source project. Find out more here.