Re: To use Oracle 10g R2 on Linux which distribution?
From: John Hurley <johnbhurley_at_sbcglobal.net>
Date: Wed, 17 Mar 2010 09:18:04 -0700 (PDT)
Message-ID: <fc2fc75f-e9a2-4297-b63c-777edf410ee6_at_t23g2000yqt.googlegroups.com>
On Mar 17, 11:58 am, Jia Lu <roka..._at_gmail.com> wrote:
Date: Wed, 17 Mar 2010 09:18:04 -0700 (PDT)
Message-ID: <fc2fc75f-e9a2-4297-b63c-777edf410ee6_at_t23g2000yqt.googlegroups.com>
On Mar 17, 11:58 am, Jia Lu <roka..._at_gmail.com> wrote:
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> > You can download it for free from Oracle ( but pay support if you need
> > to be able to patch it etc ).
>
> Thanks for your answer.
> What about the payment's difference of OEL 5.4 support and RHEL 5.4
> support?
> I think I will use the cheaper one.
Well Oracle undercut Redhat on the price to provide cheaper support and to take some marketshare from Redhat.
Essentially they just clone redhat since redhat provides all the stuff open source. Received on Wed Mar 17 2010 - 11:18:04 CDT