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Outspoken chief executive officer Larry Ellison believes the company needs its own operating system to match the competition, and has admitted he considered buying Suse Linux owner, Novell.
Novell hopes companies that deserted it for Microsoft in the nineties may come back to the fold following its acquisition of SuSE.
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