From DBAPlace, via OpenWorld 2006: Oracle CEO Larry Ellison unveiled “Unbreakable Linux“, a Linux support program offering through Oracle for enterprise customers. For the first time Oracle database customers can have a single point of contact for both Database and Operating system technologies.

Via Computer Buisness Review: Oracle has been strongly linked with a move into the Linux distribution business since its chairman and chief executive, Larry Ellison, discussed the possibility with the Financial Times in April.

“I’d like to have a complete stack,” Ellison said at the time. “We’re missing an operating system. You could argue that it makes a lot of sense for us to look at distributing and supporting Linux.”

Via ComputerWorld: Oracle Corp. today released 101 new patches addressing vulnerabilities across its range of database and application server products as well as its collaboration and e-business suites.

Among the vulnerabilities listed are 63 fixes that address flaws in Oracle’s database products, 14 aimed at plugging holes in the company’s application server products, 13 for vulnerabilities in its e-business suites and nine patches addressing security flaws in the company’s PeopleSoft and J.D. Edwards software.

Via ComputerWorld: MySQL AB confirmed recent reports that it will offer a database monitoring and advisory service as part of its MySQL Enterprise commercial subscription service later this year.

Last month, a source close to MySQL revealed that the vendor’s developers had been working on a project code-named “Merlin” for nearly two years to create a server-based database monitoring and advisory service. The service constantly scans a user’s MySQL database network to identify any potential systems crashes, bottlenecks or security vulnerabilities.