Re: Oracle chief architect says there ought to be one Linux distribution: Red Hat
Date: Thu, 08 May 2008 22:54:39 +0200
Message-ID: <1840320.EzriITc23R@michael-schmarck.my-fqdn.de>
ยท Ramon F Herrera <ramon_at_conexus.net>:
> 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.
Sure. But it's, more or less, a stable environment ("stable" in the sense that it doesn't change much - obviously not in the sense, that it runs well).
> Linux may be different in a sense, but that doesn't mean that Oracle
> should support multiple distributions (*).
Wrong. Oracle should do exactly that.
> That would be simply
> insane.
No. It would make a lot of sense.
> 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?
If it's as widely used as, let's say, Ubuntu or Debian: Yes, why not?
> 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.
Why just RHEL? Why not (also) SLES? What's wrong about Debian or Ubuntu LTS?
It's not about being able to shell out a few hundred bucks. It's rather, that Oracle should not try to force what Linux version is okay to use, if there's no good reason (and there isn't).
> (*) and by "multiple" I mean the strict: "more than one".
Understood.
Michael Schmarck
-- I feel sorry for your brain... all alone in that great big head...Received on Thu May 08 2008 - 15:54:39 CDT