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

From: Ramon F Herrera <ramon_at_conexus.net>
Date: Fri, 9 May 2008 10:58:03 -0700 (PDT)
Message-ID: <773e7770-e1e4-4146-acd4-f4a677684e91@d77g2000hsb.googlegroups.com>


On May 9, 1:58 am, Michael Schmarck <usenet-mich..._at_schmarck.cn> wrote:
> bdbafh <bdb..._at_gmail.com> wrote:
> > Go check under "Certify" on Metalink.oracle.com for what distros are
> > and are not supported.
>

 > Care to provide a direct link?
>

He cannot. That information is classified. :-)

Now seriously: you have to be an Oracle Metalink subscriber to see the certification matrix.

Last time I checked, Oracle supports 3 distribuitions, all of them in the "Enterprise" category.

  • RHEL
  • Enterprise SuSE
  • Asia Linux

Oracle works directly with the folks responsible for the above distributions. The original one was RedHat. They both (Oracle + RH) opened a development lab to make sure that the software ran properly on Linux. Oracle gave every byte of code -as required- back to the community.

The point is that when they discover a bug or problem, Oracle can pick up a phone, make *three* phone calls and yell: "Fix this now!".

It turns out that they would like to make a *single* phone call, with the cost savings, wall street pressures and all.

Ergo, the RH special status.

-Ramon Received on Fri May 09 2008 - 12:58:03 CDT

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