On Fri, 29 Jul 2011, Mindaugas Riauba wrote:
http://www.faqs.org/patents/assignee/ksplice-inc/ - there "only" seem
to be two patents.
...yet that's two too many in Oracle's hands.
Oracle pushes Redhat quite some recently. Looking into Oracle
database - one can run asmlib on RHEL6 only with Oracle kernel. Also
smartcache functionality is available only for Oracle Linux users. Now
Ksplice.
There's also a change of heart for ocfs2. ocfs 2.4 was readily available
and supported on RHEL5. ocfs 2.6 not so much. New development happens in
Open Source, but the integration/support/stability with RHEL kernels has
ended.
People will have to choose whether they lock themselves into Oracle
technology or not, it seems. Will be problematic if your Oracle guys are
twisting arms to get OEL inside the company...
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-- dag wieers, [email protected], http://dag.wieers.com/
-- dagit linux solutions, [email protected], http://dagit.net/
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