On Fri, Jul 20, 2012 at 3:16 PM, Craig White <craig.white@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > they want to sell SLA's which they sell cheaper than Red Hat which has caused a rather sucky side effect which makes it more difficult to produce customized kernels which would never have happened had Oracle not chosen to ride the coattails of Red Hat and undercut the pricing Well, if you see it the other way around, Oracle' s -and SUSE' s and any other competition that might come along- help puts RHAT pricing in check... In the end what matters is if Oracle's kernel programmers are any better at fixing bugs than RHAT's and if their support responds on time or not. For us end users with no support contract, the more heads and firms that are involved in kernel dev and linux support, the better, more chance of getting higher quality software. I see plenty of patches/fixes to the Linux kernel by Oracle employees... http://goo.gl/MqjCl FC _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@xxxxxxxxxx http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos