[ILUG] RHEL clones

[Gareth 'bigbro' Eason]

Conor Wynne wrote:
[snip]
>> You know I find that hilarious, Oracle costs more than your server and OS
>> combined, and potentially more than your backend storage as well, yet people
>> go and install it on an unsupported OS. This makes no sense to me at all.
>>
>> If you must use a RHEL clone, and you buy oracle retail (not OE), then why
>> not go for unitedlinux instead. That way oracle are your one stop shop for
>> everything.
[snip]

	   Hi,

	It might be because there are things other than Oracle running on the 
same server, which are easier to source and maintain for (say) CentOS 
than unbreakablelinux/$other_distro_du_jour ;-)

	When I was deploying production services using Oracle, servers were HP 
and under warranty with them, colo was professional with remote 
hands/eyes, etc., OS was RHEL 3/4, and Oracle was... well... Oracle - 
every part being supported by at least the supplier and sometimes there 
being crossover between support elements, neatly covering all the things 
I couldn't fix myself.

	If people want to deploy Oracle on Debian for their own testing 
purposes or whatever, that's also good. In fact, if someone could 
provide me with a working Oracle on Debian build, I might actually use 
Oracle for some of the database nonsense I do now :-)

	Best regards,
	-->Gar