Source: http://www.workswithu.com/2008/08/14/why-its-okay-for-oracle-sap-to-skip...
There’s some buzz across the web this week as folks notice neither Oracle nor SAP has announced application support for Ubuntu Server Edition. Sure, it would be nice for Oracle and SAP to endorse Canonical and Ubuntu. But I don’t expect it to happen anytime soon. And that’s not a problem. Here’s why.
Oracle, after all, has its own Linux ambitions. And remember this: Dell is Oracle’s biggest reseller. Yes, Dell.

LWN.net has published an article on a new Linux access control mechanism called the Simplified Mandatory Access Control Kernel (Smack). Part of the mainline kernel since version 2.6.25, Smack is simpler and less resource-intensive than SELinux, especially for embedded developers, says the story.