I think part of it had to do with the support for zSeries that RH was offering at the time. LVM wasn't available for awhile, problems with GCC, 31 bit support in 64 bit guests . . . .
Also (we were in the early adopter program for Oracle on Linux for zSeries), there wasn't much of a demand. If there aren't customers asking for it, they aren't going to ship it. It takes several months to certify the database for a platform and zSeries cycles aren't cheap. -----Original Message----- From: Tom Duerbusch [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, June 03, 2005 10:56 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: RHEL vs SLES on z890/LPAR In some aspects they are the same....but they are not from Oracle's perspective. For some reason, dealing with RHEL, Oracle skipped one of the RHEL releases as far as certification. Oracle 10g (the 64 bit version) is certified on Suse 9.0 with Oracle 9.0 being certified on Suse 8.0. Oracle 9 was certified on RHEL (some older release), skipped the next RHEL release, and Oracle 10g is suppose to be certified on the next (or perhaps it is out already) release of RHEL which is 64 bit RHEL. But once you have the Oracle release you want, running on a certified release of z/Linux, I doupt that there is much difference from an Oracles' perspective. (I was at an Oracle installation class that only discussed RHEL for a few minutes. I'm on SLES and the class was based on SLES. So I tuned out the RHEL discussion, which was rather minor. ) Tom Duerbusch THD Consulting Tom Duerbusch THD Consulting >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 06/02/05 2:03 PM >>> >From the DBA's point of view, I would say that neither of them have any advantage over the other, if they're both certified by Oracle. I believe that Oracle uses SUSE Linux as their development platform, if that matters to you. Mark Post -----Original Message----- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Uriel Carrasquilla Sent: Thursday, June 02, 2005 2:34 PM To: [email protected] Subject: RHEL vs SLES on z890/LPAR I was wondering if anybody in this group have a recommendation for either running RHEL or SLES for a large Oracle database. What would be the advantages of one distro over the other distro from the DBA point of view. Regards, [EMAIL PROTECTED] NCCI ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
