Michael, That is my point. Red Hat does not have a local affiliate. They have Touch Solutions. And Touch Solutions outsourced their RHCE training and exam requirements to Q-Linux.
Personally, all other things being equal, and even more so if I have an existing Enterprise Licensing Agreement with Oracle, of course I would get the OEL support. You can't beat $99, right? I'm not generalizing and saying that OEL is the right fit for everyone. But for people who currently run Oracle DB, have a support contract, and are separately paying for Linux support, it does seem to be a no-brainer. On 2/15/07, Michael Tinsay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
As far as I know, there is no local affilliate of Red Hat in the Philippines. What they have is a distributor (Touch Solutions?) and several dealers. I don't know if the distributor is just a sales channel or do they provide RH support, as well. Since you're with RH SG, may I ask how is RH supported in Asia? Oracle Philippines on the other hand has been around for a couple of decades (maybe more) and have a local support group. Haven't tried them on Linux, but they're metal support for their RDBMS is ok (from the few times I have reported problems to them). I have four servers incoming with a month or two for an SAP project. It will definitely be running a Linux distro. Between RHEL and OEL, OEL has the advantage price-wise. One thing going for RH currently is that it is certified by SAP -- haven't heard such from Oracle for OEL though. As for support, it is still a toss-up for me.
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