[ILUG] RHEL clones

[Breno Gomes]

Gareth 'bigbro' Eason wrote:
> 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
> 
> 
My post was at least highly contrasting compared to previous ones when I 
was working for Oracle. Moving to an open source company gave me the 
much needed freedom to express my ideas. I do not regret my time with 
Oracle and it was great to define a clear career path.

For Debian and its descendants (Ubuntu in my case) you can use Oracle 
XE, which imposes some limits unsuitable for production, but it is 
superb as a learning tool, development and even non-critical production 
work. It is available free of charge on otn.oracle.com. Oracle SQL 
Developer runs on JRE and integrates well with XE.

I am more than happy to share some accumulated knowledge.