Oracle is not alone in offering a clustered file system that is designed to ease the management of database software running on clusters of Linux servers.

Oracle has introduced enhanced Sun Fire x86 clustered systems to bolster its line of enterprise-class blade and rackmount servers for highly virtualized and private cloud deployments.

Oracle Corp. is releasing the underlying code to software it developed to allow databases to be better managed on clusters of Linux servers.The company Wednesday will post online the source code ...