Constant Motion

But this is only the beginning. Changing software is part of ongoing business for all software companies. On a periodic basis, software companies build new releases of software, and that software must be ported onto multiple environments and tested. Oracle has been doing this since the founding of the company. Today, Oracle delivers 160+ releases a year of five base products and patch set releases on 14 platforms. These platforms are Solaris64, HPUX (PA-RISC), AIX 5L, OS390, VMS, Tru64, HPUX (IA64), Linux (AMD64), Linux (IA32), Linux (IA64), Linux (zOS), Apple MacOS, Solaris (IA32), and Linux (p-Series).

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