Donna Scott

On 5 June 2002, Oracle announced that clustering and high availability for the Oracle9i Database with Real Application Clusters (RAC) are available for the Red Hat Advanced Server OS on Dell Computer PowerEdge servers. In addition, Oracle announced cluster file system and clustering support for Red Hat Linux.

To allay fears about Linux support, Oracle added enterprise functions to Red Hat's Linux operating system (OS) and will support it and the Oracle9i RAC database -- the first time Oracle takes full responsibility for an OS.