RE: centos to redhat

Mike,
I have been using Fedora (redhat community version) on few dev/test boxes. On production/staging we stick to supported distros for want of support continuity and to adhere to oracle's licensing terms. If you have paid oracle's support cost, I don't think you should have problem with bearing the os cost (these decisions would have been taken during the initial purchase/vendor selection phase).

Your sysadmin is technically correct as all distros use the same base kernel (with additional dependent packages). What is required is to look at the selection from business continuity and licensing requirement point of view.

Others in this forum will also warn you on this, it all part of vendor relationship management.

If you want a more concrete fact, raise an SR with oracle on this and hear their opinion.

thanks!
amar kumar padhi
www.amar-padhi.com
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From: "Michael McMullen" <ganstadba_at_hotmail.com> To: "oracle-l_at_freelists.org" <oracle-l_at_freelists.org> Sent: 29-09-07 02:52
Subject: centos to redhat

Forgive me if I'm missing anything or my terminology is incorrect. I've been on linux for < 8 months
My SA's put centos on our dev servers to save licencing costs. From metalink I see that Centos is not supported. That's fine it's dev. But for one of our prod servers they put it on and then just switched a line in a file to have it show as RedHat. They said that's the only difference and it's fine. I'm just worried somewhere down the line an RDA with oracle will show Centos and then no support.
Any thoughts on this?

Thanks
Mike

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http://www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l Received on Fri Sep 28 2007 - 22:26:00 CDT