Dear Friends: This discussion is very timely for me. I am in the process of installing Oracle Application Server 10g on a Linux server. My advice for the world is , DO NOT BUY ORACLE APPLICATION SERVER FOR LINUX. Oracle Application Server as a product is for either mentally retarded folks for or for those who are Oracle slaves for variety of reasons, legacy being one of them. Oracle's commitment to Linux is lip service at best. What is worse, Oracle is actually causing severe damage to the open source movement. If we do not watch out, Linux will end up like Solaris in the guise of Red Hat Linux. If we do not act, more and more proprietary software companies will release their software to a particular version of Linux from a specific vendor. Next thing you will see is that Oracle bought RedHat Linux for a handsome price. Oracle has a large captive market and "forking" of Linux would have happened. That is if Red Hat has not already forked it. We must act. Now coming to the Linux part. Prior to my struggle with installing Oracle Application Server on Linux, I installed Oracle Database 10g on Linux. Even though the documentation proclaimed I needed Redhat Linux Advanced Server, Oracle Database 10g installed fine on the version of Linux that my colleagues had compiled themselves. Emboldened by the experience, we set out to install Oracle Application Server 10g on the box. This time, the documentation was correct. We needed packages which are part of Redhat Linux Enterprise Server and we could not find these packages anywhere else. When I asked Oracle Corporation as to why their Application would not run on regular Linux. Their response was, Oracle Appserver 10g is optimized for Red Hat Enterprise Server and Red Hat Enterprise Server contains packages that have not been approved by the open source community yet. I ended up purchasing Red Hat Enterprise Server from RedHat and I paid around $350.0 . I know that I could have downloaded it from some other sites but we had a deadline and I did not want to take any risks. Now the installation of Oracle Application Server is proceeding smoothly. But I am bitter like hell and I have a question. Why should Red Hat release tools and utilities to sharks like Oracle Corporation which have not been approved by the open source community? I am not sure if breaks one of the fundamental tenets of the GPL license. Regards. Ravi Verma 001-916-705-3261 -----Original Message----- From: redhat-list-admin@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:redhat-list-admin@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Robert Canary Sent: Sunday, February 22, 2004 11:35 AM To: redhat-list@xxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: Fate of RedHat I didn't know it was going anywhere!! What are you talking about? Is RedHat throughing in the towwel?????? Thomas E. Dukes wrote: > I was just wondering if there is a general concensus (sp) of what > everyone is planning to do when RedHat 9.0 is no longer supported? > > Are most going to the Fedora Project or paying to go to the Enterprise > Linux? > > The EL is freely available for download in .iso form on the internet > if you "look". Would I get in trouble for installing it? I really > don't care to pay for support anyway. > > TIA > > > -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
