Re: Open Source Oracle?

From: Hans Forbrich <forbrich_at_yahoo.net>
Date: Wed, 15 Sep 2004 23:22:57 GMT
Message-ID: <l942d.31994$KU5.15134@edtnps89>

Howard J. Rogers wrote:

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> This is probably off-topic, but I notice that 10g's prerequisite check
> looks to see RHAS2.1, RHAS3 and UnitedLinux 1... it doesn't even check for
> (and hence presumably isn't certified for) SUSE Enterprise Server. That
> seems a tad unfortunate...

That is apparently changing. Rumor has it Oracle is evaluating or certifying the SLES 9. Personally I can't wait for that to be completed - there is a backlog of demand here.

> I know Suse had something to do with UnitedLinux, but SLES is still a
> separate product, unless I'm very much mistaken.

From what I'd read ... per the agreement between the fabulous four (well, fab three plus one), SuSE provided the core for UL 1.0 All 4 apparently provided resources to stabilize the core. The installer and some of the extras were individualized.

(Quite some time ago I'd standardized on SLES 8 for prod. The above is paraphrased from the license and overview docco.)

/Hans Received on Wed Sep 15 2004 - 18:22:57 CDT