Oracle and Open Source

Oracle is committed to offering choice, flexibility, and a lower cost of computing for end users. By investing significant resources in developing, testing, optimizing, and supporting open source technologies such as Linux, PHP, Apache, Eclipse, Berkeley DB, and InnoDB, Oracle is clearly embracing and offering open source solutions as a viable choice for development and deployment.

Today, many customers are using Oracle together with open source technologies in mission-critical environments and are reaping the benefits of lower costs, easier manageability, higher availability, and reliability along with performance and scalability advantages.

	KEY OPEN SOURCE INITIATIVES
	Linux in the Enterprise—Oracle Database is #1 on Linux with 82.6% of the market, and Oracle Unbreakable Linux delivers enterprise-quality support for Linux at a lower cost. Eclipse—Oracle is an Eclipse board member and strategic developer, and has donated Oracle TopLink to the open source community. Oracle also contributes developers and leadership to three Eclipse projects: Dali JPA Tools, JavaServer Faces (JSF), and BPEL. Easing PHP Development—Oracle is committed to taking PHP into the enterprise, with Zend Core for Oracle. Download your free copy of The Underground PHP and Oracle Manual Release 1.5 (PDF). This popular e-book bridges the gap between the many PHP and the many Oracle texts available. It explains how to use the PHP scripting language with the Oracle Database, from installation through optimization and management. Open Source Tooling Projects—Oracle contributes to several open-source tooling projects, including Project Trinidad (ADF Faces), Eclipse, Spring, and SASH. Embed with Berkeley DB—Oracle's Berkeley DB is the most widely used open source database in the world with deployments estimated at more than 200 million. InnoDB—Created by Oracle subsidiary Innobase OY, InnoDB is the leading transactional storage engine for the popular MySQL open source database. Free and Open Source Software—Everything you need to know about Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) from, and for, Oracle, including community projects, downloads, blogs, and more.