Re: Speculations on oracle buying sun

From: Matthias Hoys <anti_at_spam.com>
Date: Wed, 22 Apr 2009 20:25:12 +0200
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From: "Matthias Hoys" <anti_at_spam.com> Newsgroups: comp.databases.oracle.server References: <c981c935-80e1-447f-92aa-76434f2c1821_at_k2g2000yql.googlegroups.com> <gskfs0$d4k$1_at_news.motzarella.org> <46225a60-3f36-4d27-8e00-93bd5729a8c6_at_f19g2000yqh.googlegroups.com> <87a248cf-ca24-4fc4-8039-a9bd3d0fe6f8_at_v23g2000pro.googlegroups.com> <49ef58e4$0$2850$ba620e4c_at_news.skynet.be> <6eeaf65e-9d88-4d91-a203-965197e51396_at_z14g2000yqa.googlegroups.com> <49ef60b9$0$2864$ba620e4c_at_news.skynet.be> Subject: Re: Speculations on oracle buying sun Date: Wed, 22 Apr 2009 20:25:12 +0200

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"Matthias Hoys" <anti_at_spam.com> wrote in message news:49ef60b9$0$2864$ba620e4c_at_news.skynet.be...
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> <johnbhurley_at_sbcglobal.net> wrote in message
> news:6eeaf65e-9d88-4d91-a203-965197e51396_at_z14g2000yqa.googlegroups.com...
> On Apr 22, 1:50 pm, "Matthias Hoys" <a..._at_spam.com> wrote:
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> snip
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>> Talking about virtualization ... Oracle now has Sun's virtualization
>> products ... so I guess official support for Oracle on VMWare won't be
>> for
>> pretty soon ...
>
> Oh I guess that could get nasty ... you are "will be soon perhaps"
> supported in a virtualized environment if it is our software providing
> the virtualization otherwise ... crickets?
>
> Does oracle not support virtual enviroments done out of OEL based
> systems now?
> --
>
> This is from Metalink note 249212.1:
>
> "Oracle has not certified any of its products on VMware virtualized
> environments. Oracle Support will assist customers running Oracle products
> on VMware in the following manner: Oracle will only provide
> support for issues that either are known to occur on the native OS, or
> can be demonstrated not to be as a result of running on VMware."
>
> Although the last modified date is november 2007 ...
>
> Matthias
>
>

I was just thinking ... "certification" is probably something else then "support" ... Received on Wed Apr 22 2009 - 13:25:12 CDT