Re: Oracle Announces The Same Enterprise Class Support For Linux As For Its Database

From: William B Ferguson <wbfergus_at_usgs.gov>
Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2006 07:37:05 -0600
Message-ID: <OFB5D5844C.876501A1-ON87257213.004ACE53-87257213.004ACE67@usgs.gov>

Actually I think all the hubbub is about Oracle offering cheaper support for Red Hat Linux than Red Hat. I just ran across this article:

http://apnews1.iwon.com/article/20061026/D8L0BDQ00.html (Oracle takes aim at Red Hat)

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To: oracle-l <oracle-l@freelists.org>
From: "Chris Marquez" <marquezemail@gmail.com>
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Date: 10/26/2006 07:30AM
Subject: Re: Oracle Announces The Same Enterprise Class Support For Linux As For Its Database

>> Lets' wait and see if the market responds.
>> If it does not, this too shall pass.
LoL and so true

>> Sounds like Mandrake Linux 5.2.
sounds like "Oracle (aka RH) Linux" to me!?
Why now I wonder?
I'm not sure anyone is ready or cares about this.
Sure I would run it, but I'm not going to fight my SA's to run Oracle Linux, when they are perfectly happy running RH Linux.
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Chris Marquez
Oracle DBA

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