On Feb 21, 2012, at 2:50 PM, Peter Grandi wrote:
>> I've noticed a very bold statement on oracle website as if
>> Oracle Linux is 75% faster in comparison to relative RHEL. [
>> ... ] I'm very skeptical to any marketing gimmicks, but I have
>> not access to Oracle Linux to try.
>
> You are not skeptical enough. Read carefully what they claim,
> which is quite reasonable and not extraordinary. The comparison
> they make is not between RHEL (the distribution) and its Oracle
> equivalent (the distribution). Perhaps this longer statement
> will make things clearer:
>
> http://www.oracle.com/us/corporate/press/173453
Feels like Oracle is becoming what Microsoft used to be (or still is). "You
must buy our OS if you want to run our database in a supported fashion." Jeez,
this is horrible for shops that have standardized on RHEL or SUSE for their
operations.
The above press release sure sounds like they're comparing apples to oranges.
I'd like to see the technical document listing all the changes required to get
75% performance improvement. What do you want to bet certain pieces of storage
were changed, not just software? :-)
/Brian/
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