[Cialug] Fedora?

Matthew Nuzum newz at bearfruit.org
Wed Jul 25 10:47:06 CDT 2007


On 7/25/07, Josh More <morej at alliancetechnologies.net> wrote:

> I looked into this as soon as Oracle announced it, and Oracle is
> basically supporting RHEL, but a limited subset of the packages.  In
> other words, yes, they offer support for RHEL at a lower cost and beyond
> the RHEL life cycle.  However, they only support the packages needed to
> run Oracle on it.
>
> So, if you need to run Oracle, by all means consider "Unbreakable
> Linux".  However, if you want to do other things with it (Web, File
> Sharing, Firewalls, Mail, etc), read the support contract *very*
> carefully.
>

Excellent catch. Oracle, besides MS, may be the most important ISV here in
the US and it will be interesting to see the adoption of Oracle Unbreakable
Linux because of it.

-- 
Matthew Nuzum
newz2000 on freenode
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