Re: Oracle chief architect says there ought to be one Linux distribution: Red Hat

On May 8, 1:49 am, Michael Schmarck <usenet-mich..._at_schmarck.cn> wrote:
> Ramon F Herrera <ra..._at_conexus.net> wrote:
>
> > Oracle supports -as they should- exactly ONE distribution for every
> > OS.
>
> > - One Macintosh distribution (if they ever supported the Mac)
> > - One IBM mainframe distribution (MVS)
> > - One Solaris
> > - One AIX
> > - One HP-UX
> > - One Windows
>
> > and, last but not least:
>
> > - One Linux distribution
>
> > Why should Linux be different?
>
> Because Linux is different? How many Windows, HP-UX, AIX
> distributions are out there?
>
> Michael

There are many Windows versions/distributions, you know that.

Linux may be different in a sense, but that doesn't mean that Oracle should support multiple distributions (*). That would be simply insane.
I just hacked a new distro, it is called "Ramonux", it contains lots of spiffy kernel innovations. Should I call Oracle to demand that they support it?

Anyone who can't/won't spring several hundred dollars for the official supported distribution by Oracle (RedHat Enterprise Edition) should be banished from using Oracle.

-Ramon

(*) and by "multiple" I mean the strict: "more than one". Received on Thu May 08 2008 - 11:34:01 CDT