Linux Adoption Exceeds Oracle's Expectations

This article points out that the rate of Linux adoption has far exceeded Oracle's expectations. From the article:
Linux has been adopted more quickly and saved more money for its users than Oracle Corp. anticipated, said director of Linux engineering Wim Coekaerts. The surprises will keep coming, as Linux 2.6 wows businesses with its high-end functionality and maturity, Coekaerts said, hailing the new kernel as the star of LinuxWorld Conference & Expo.
Companies like Oracle were really waiting for the NUMA stuff that has been included in the 2.6 kernel. NUMA stands for Non-Uniform Memory Access and will allow deployment of apps like Oracle on the 32 and 64 processor boxes that have traditionally been the realm of big iron unix boxes. It's great to see companies realizing the stability and scalability improvements of Linux clusters on commodity hardware.
–jeremy