Redwood Shores, CA-based database giant Oracle (NASDAQ: [[ticker:ORCL]]) said today that it has bought Cambridge, MA-based Ksplice, a maker of technology for updating Linux. The acquisition is designed to strengthen Linux by enabling users to apply security updates, diagnostics patches, and critical bug fixes without rebooting the product, according to Oracle. Ksplice has been a success in Boston-area business competitions, winning the MIT $100k prize in 2009 and winning another $100k last year from MassChallenge.
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Erin Kutz has a background in covering business, politics and general news. She holds a bachelor’s degree in journalism from Boston University. Erin previously worked in the Boston bureau of Reuters, where she wrote articles on the investment management and mutual fund industries. While in college, she researched for USA Today reporter Jayne O’Donnell’s book, Gen Buy: How Tweens, Teens and Twenty-Somethings Are Revolutionizing Retail. She also spent a semester in Washington, DC, reporting Capitol Hill stories as a correspondent for two Connecticut newspapers and interning in the Money section of USA Today, where she assisted with coverage on the retail and small business beats. Erin got her first taste of reporting at Boston University’s independent student newspaper, as a city section reporter and fact checker and editor of the paper’s weekly business section.
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