On Tue, 28 Dec 2004, Rafael 'Dido' Sevilla wrote: > > Such an example is Oracle, where they do not support any Linux distro > > other than Red Hat-based ones. > > False. SuSE has certified their enterprise distros with Oracle too, and > anyone with the time and money to go through Oracle's certification > process can have their own certified setup. It does cost a lot of > money, so only these enterprise players have actually gone and done it.
To add, the certification is not done by Red Hat but by Oracle. So it is up to Oracle, not Red Hat. > Debian and Gentoo do not have the resources to get, say, an Oracle > certification, and perform the continuing process of recertification > against kernel and other system patches done to fix critical stability > and security problems. The same is true of enterprise hardware. I'm using Red Hat and Oracle and gosh, the problems are typically with Oracle, not Red Hat. > Turned off by Red Hat, yes. But not for the reasons you mention. A > license for Red Hat Enterprise is awfully expensive, so much so it is > getting more complicated to justify TCO when a W2K3 server license is > actually cheaper in absolute dollar terms. Their divergence from the > standards is also a major annoyance to system administrators, as I've > previously mentioned. Me too. However, a $500 price tag for the enterprise is a drop in the bucket considering it is used for a $4000 per named user application. > Again, nothing prevents people from slavishly copying Red Hat's > "standards". And that makes it good. The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from -- Dr. Andrew S. Tanenbaum. -- Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List [email protected] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) Official Website: http://plug.linux.org.ph Searchable Archives: http://marc.free.net.ph . To leave, go to http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/plug . Are you a Linux newbie? To join the newbie list, go to http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/ph-linux-newbie
