Re: CentOS instead of RHEL?

And this is the most important point.

Works <> Supported

"Your {data} scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn’t stop to think if they should."

On Wed, Jan 29, 2020 at 12:19 PM Jeff Smith <jeff.d.smith_at_oracle.com> wrote:

> You shouldn’t trust any platform that we haven’t tested and certified for
> ourselves…you’re in uncharted waters.
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> Doesn’t mean it won’t work though.
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> *From:* Clay Jackson (cjackson) <Clay.Jackson_at_quest.com>
> *Sent:* Tuesday, January 28, 2020 5:29 PM
> *To:* oracle-l_at_freelists.org
> *Subject:* RE: CentOS instead of RHEL?
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> We OCCASIONALLY get customers running CentOS (for Foglight or SharePlex)
> trying to run Oracle.
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> I had one customer try to load the Oracle 10 client (For testing Foglight
> monitoring a database running on an RHEL server) have significant issues
> with missing libraries or bad versions of libraries. They eventually went
> back and reinstalled CentOS and selected “install everything”, which seemed
> to clear up the problem.
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> Bottom line, I wouldn’t trust ANY Oracle products on CentOS.
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> *Clay Jackson*
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> Database Solutions Sales Engineer
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> clay.jackson_at_quest.com
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> *office* 949-754-1203 *mobile* 425-802-9603
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> *From:* oracle-l-bounce_at_freelists.org <oracle-l-bounce_at_freelists.org> *On
> Behalf Of *Herring, David
> *Sent:* Tuesday, January 28, 2020 2:22 PM
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> *Subject:* CentOS instead of RHEL?
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> Today one of my leaders approached our team informing us that our sysadm
> team was planning on migrating from RHEL to CentOS and wanted to know if we
> knew of any issues running Oracle products on CentOS. As any good DBA
> would do when presented with this, I checked certifications in MOS and
> couldn't find anything that explicitly listed CentOS. So I assumed that
> some flavors of Linux are just dumped under the grouping "Redhat" but just
> to be sure I opened an SR.
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> Oracle came back with:
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> *Remember, CentOS and Scientific Linux, both of which are clones of RHEL
> (like Oracle Linux), are not supported by Oracle for the database and
> WebLogic installations, so you CAN NOT use these. You can happily use them
> for non-Oracle installations though. CentOS is similar to Oracle Linux.
> Free to use, but you can choose to pay for support. Therefore; it is not
> the same and is not certified and we do not test on it. If there is an
> issue, Oracle Support does not support it.*
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> Seems pretty clear to me - not supported so there's no way we'd allow
> hundreds of complex production envs be migrated to CentOS. But I have a
> hard time believing the sysadm team (outsourced and we're just 1 of many
> clients they support) would not have come across this issue already. So
> there's nothing to read into/between lines on this one - no support.
> Right? No one out there (unless living on the edge) is running Oracle on
> CentOS in production? Just doing a double-tap to make sure.
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> Regards,
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> Dave
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