text: Wednesday Jun 5th 2002 by Michael Singer
  A new partnership brings together Dell's blade servers, Red Hat's Linux operating system, and Oracle's database software.
  REDWOOD SHORES, Calif. -- A trio of high tech CEOs joined forces Wednesday in a move to unseat IBM as the Linux vendor of choice.Oracle CEO Larry Ellison, Dell Computer CEO Michael Dell, and Red Hat CEO Matthew Szulik said they are fully committing themselves to Linux for the enterprise."Boy it feels awfully good to get here," said Szulik, sporting his trademark crimson fedora. "I guess you could call this an 'Unbreakable' partnership."
  While the current plan is exclusively designed for Intel semiconductors, Oracle said the plan is to also support IA 64 and AMD in the near future.Austin, Texas-based Dell also announced new certified configurations based on Release 2 of Oracle9i Database and Red Hat Linux Advanced Server and outlined efforts to integrate Oracle Enterprise Manager with Dell OpenManage systems management software.