When we all think of “Software Stack” we think of open source cloud hosting software. It usually means a suite of operating system, utilities, and applications designed to deliver various services. For example, the LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, Perl/PHP/Python) stack is what lies behind many Web sites, and the combination of Server 2008 R2, Microsoft Exchange, Windows 7 and Outlook is what powers many office e-mail systems.

Why do I bring this up?  I have a large suspision that Oracle is building it’s own Software Stack.  The chief corporate architect at Oracle, Edward Screven, said that Oracle wants to give companies access to a world where data centers have become “service centers.”

“This is about the full stack of management,” John Fowler, Oracle’s executive vice president of Systems, said during the Aug. 19 event. “We incorporate and include all these technologies onto the platform.”

“There is no other company on the planet that has the complete breadth of virtualization technologies that Oracle has,” Edward Screven, Oracle’s chief corporate architect, also said during the event.
More importantly… we’ve put all these pieces together.”

Oracle has always had their hands in many different computing areas: an operating system, Unbreakable Linux, Solaris, and with the acquisition of Sun, Java.  If any of you have noticed the similarity to all these recent acquisitions… They all amount to a pretty amazing cloud server platform.  Oracle recently announced four desktop virtualization options, including Oracle Virtual Desktop Infrastructure 3.2, Oracle Sun Ray Software 5, Oracle VM Virtual Box 3.2 and Sun Ray 3 Plus Client.

I’ll be the one to call it “Oracle Software Stack” will be one of the next platforms that Oracle releases.  It would be unbeatable. Cloud Linux on steroids.  All the companies out there would have a huge disadvantage. I’m very interested to try out the beta release of OracleVM 3.0.

“There’s an evolution happening in requirements and with the demands placed on virtualization technology… isolated virtualization solutions are not enough,” Screven said. “The goal is to deploy a full stack and be able to change the level of compute power applied to the stack dynamically .. [without] making management harder.”

I think it’s only a matter of time before Oracle takes over the market share from VMware and other companies in the cloud server services area. Next on the list… Oracle Software Stack