Oracle buys Ksplice, developer of technology "zero downtime"

The online edition of Infoworld believes that this move demonstrates Oracle’s desire to compete with companies like Red Hat.

So, on Thursday, it was officially announced that the Oracle giant had made the purchase of Ksplice, the creator of the technology, allowing administrators to install important security updates (including kernel updates) on Linux servers without subsequent rebooting. Details of the transaction were not announced.

On the Oracle website there is a news item saying that the Internet giant plans to be the only corporation that will provide customers with “zero downtime” technology, which will be delivered by default to the premium customers of Oracle Linux (meaning those who bought Oracle Linux Premier Support).
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Oracle executives represented by the CEO and senior vice president of the department responsible for the operating system: “Already, the company has more than 7,000 corporate users of Oracle Linux. With the introduction of Ksplice, this number should increase significantly. ”

In the e-mail newsletter, Ksplice subscribers say that zero-downtime technology will not be supplied separately from now on. It can be purchased only with Oracle Linux Premier Support. In particular, Ksplice no longer supports RHEL, SuSe, CentOS.