Not to be outdone by other major vendors that have hopped on the Linux bandwagon such as Oracle, IBM, and Sun Microsystems, a Hewlett-Packard official during the OracleWorld show on Thursday stressed that HP has been backing the open-source platform.

Two Oracle officials at the OracleWorld conference here on Wednesday, Jamshed Patel, senior manager in the Oracle Linux Program Office, and Andrew Mendelsohn, senior vice president of database and application server technologies, acknowledged the intentions of the company to run its entire business on Linux.