Johnny Hughes wrote:
> On 12/29/2011 01:19 PM, m.roth@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
>> Johnny Hughes wrote:
>>> On 12/29/2011 01:01 PM, John Broome wrote:
>>>> On Thu, Dec 29, 2011 at 13:57, John R Pierce <pierce@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>> On 12/29/11 4:30 AM, mcclnx mcc wrote:
>>>>>> Does anyone know CENTOS/Redhat 6.X compatible to ORACLE software
>>>>>> (X86 and X86_64) version like 9.X, 10GR2, 11G and 11GR2.
>>>>>
>>>>> 11.2.0.3(I think is latest?) seems to work fine on CentOS 6.1,
>>>>> however RHEL6 (and all versions of CentOS) are completely
>>>>> unsupported by Oracle, so I wouldn't plan on using it for any sort
>>>>> of production where you expect support. there were some minor
>>>>> ignorable issues in install, like it claimed the system is missing
>>>>> some old packages
>>>>
>>>> So if oracle isn't certified to run on OEL 6, did oracle roll it out
>>>> just for shits and giggles?
>>>
>>> No, they rolled it out as a Linux distribution. Believe it or not,
>>> people do other things besides run Oracle databases on Linux :)
>>>
>>> I am sure they will certify their database systems on OEL 6.x in the
>>> future.
>>>
>>> They can't very well (at least not with a straight face) tell Red Hat
>>> that RHEL6 is not certified while saying that OEL6 is certified can
>>> they? If they do that for very long, they will be breaching their
>>> support agreements.
>> <snip>
>> Let me also note that whatever else Oracle is, they're not stupid when
>> it comes to selling, and there are many, many more RHEL installations
>> than there are OUL.
>
> But if you have a license for rhel6, you can also run rhel5 ...
> therefore, they get their supported sales by supporting rhel5, while
> still claiming their kernel is better and trying to drive people to
> their product.
>
> Where is their incentive to support rhel6 until much closer to March 31,
> 2017 (rhel5 EOL Date).
As I said, there are many, many more RHEL installations, and most of them
will want to go to RHEL6 within the coming year. And, of course, some of
those installations are LARGE$$$$$$$ customers of Oracle (for example, I
have personal knowledge that AT&T uses RHEL extensively). When they lean,
Oracle will fall all over themselves, if only to make more money.
mark
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