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Date: Mon, 02 Feb 2004 12:16:47 -0600
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From: Jay Weinshenker <jweinshe@concentric.net>
Subject: Re: Will 10g install on any Linux???
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Oracle has been saying for over a year that they only want to support 
Oracle on certified Linux combos.

Having said that, the cheapest I'm aware of, RedHat Enterprise Linux 
Enterprise Server (RHEL ES) is only $400 or so.

Oh, and I'll be nice.  For RHAS 2.1 Update 2, this is the uname
[applprod@oradb sql]$ uname -a
Linux servername 2.4.9-e.3smp #1 SMP Fri May 3 16:48:54 EDT 2002 i686 unknown

J
p.s.  Please, no one give me any BS about IANAL
At 12:05 PM 02/02/2004, Mladen Gogala wrote:
>Well, if necessary, we'll compile /usr/local/bin/uname and make sure it
>returns the desired information. Uname will consist of few printfs and
>will take exactly the same command line arguments as the original one.
>By the way, I don't think oracle wants to do that, because there would
>be quite an uproar. There are other databases and mindshare will sooner
>or later transform into the market share. Believe me, Oracle does not
>want to restrict their flagship database to $3000 Linux versions only,
>because that would make the door wide open for competition like DB/2
>and PosgresSQL.
>If nothing else, you can always get a Java decompiler from slashdot,
>inspect the source code and rig the part that checks the OS version
>appropriately. On the other hand, this might be just another way of
>hiding the "quality" of the code. Trick would be to make 10g available
>for supported Linux only, which is run by very few people and do not
>make the RDBMS widely available until it's fixed. That would confirm
>the information I've already discussed on this group and usenet.
>
>
>
>On 02/02/2004 12:35:20 PM, "Jesse, Rich" wrote:
> > Yes, those are the "certified" Linux releases, but Oracle versions
> > prior to
> > 10g could be installed on other distros.  The screenshots seem to
> > indicate
> > that the Installer now checks which Linux you're running, which leads
> > me
> > back to the original question.
> >
> > Rich Jesse                        System/Database Administrator
> > rich.jesse@qtiworld.com           Quad/Tech International, Sussex, WI
> > USA
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Mladen Gogala [mailto:mladen@wangtrading.com]
> > Sent: Monday, February 02, 2004 10:26 AM
> > To: oracle-l@freelists.org
> > Subject: Re: Will 10g install on any Linux???
> >
> >
> > On 02/02/2004 11:04:04 AM, "Jesse, Rich" wrote:
> > > According to screenshots from
> > > http://otn.oracle.com/obe/obe10gdb/install/linuxinst/linuxinst.htm
> > it
> > > looks
> > > like the installer checks to see if it's running on a "certified"
> > > Linux.  I
> > > thought the latest line was that Oracle would support running on
> > any
> > > Linux?
> >
> >
> > Here is what I was able to dig up:
> > Application Tier Certifications
> > OS Product Server Status Addtl. Info. Components Other Issues
> >
> > [snip]
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