On Thu, 19 Jun 2003 23:50, Michael Meskes wrote: > On Wed, Jun 18, 2003 at 10:13:17PM +1000, Russell Coker wrote: > > If a company wants to make a commercial distribution based on Debian then > > providing that they accept certain kernel patches and comply with a > > rigorous test program then I think that SAP would be interested in > > dealing with them. > > > > I imagine that the situation will be similar for Oracle. > > I wonder if that's all or the same support problem arises as with > Oracle.
I believe that I was being given honest answers to my questions. So the only issue is whether the person I was talking to knows what *really* happens. As for the support people, I don't think that necessarily makes it impossible. If you started up a company to produce a commercial distribution based on Debian for running Oracle then having your people answer the phones at Oracle would be good for business... -- http://www.coker.com.au/selinux/ My NSA Security Enhanced Linux packages http://www.coker.com.au/bonnie++/ Bonnie++ hard drive benchmark http://www.coker.com.au/postal/ Postal SMTP/POP benchmark http://www.coker.com.au/~russell/ My home page