Oracle likes Linux. They also like their new Oracle VM product and Oracle VM Templates for EnterpriseOne. What Oracle cannot (will not) do with VM is template the Deployment Server because Oracle cannot (will not) ship Windows with a VM template. Their solution to this dilemma is likely a Linux-based Deployment Server that can be templated.
The Deployment Server is simply a file server - an easy role for Linux. It also does some compiling and happens to have a database hanging around for some non-transactional storage. As far as the database, Oracle solved the issue of dependence on an MSDE/SSE SQL Server database by allowing an Oracle database to be used as the Deployment Server's local database. The rest should just be details.
Conversation with people in Denver nets this quote: "There may be plans within Oracle to make the Deployment Server multi-platform." When asked if there was a Linux-based Deployment Server coming, they would not deny that there was.
Freer and freer, redder and redder.
The Deployment Server is simply a file server - an easy role for Linux. It also does some compiling and happens to have a database hanging around for some non-transactional storage. As far as the database, Oracle solved the issue of dependence on an MSDE/SSE SQL Server database by allowing an Oracle database to be used as the Deployment Server's local database. The rest should just be details.
Conversation with people in Denver nets this quote: "There may be plans within Oracle to make the Deployment Server multi-platform." When asked if there was a Linux-based Deployment Server coming, they would not deny that there was.
Freer and freer, redder and redder.
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