Red Hat snubbed by Oracle

Ola,

On Tue, 18 Mar 2003, Bruce Momjian wrote:

Oracle is now providing higher level support for United Linux than for
Red Hat Linux:

http://www.silicon.com/news/500011/1/3315.html

I wonder if that is related to Red Hat's support for PostgreSQL.

Very probable, but I think that this can also be another attempt
to push oracle to linux corporate users. At least to me, it seemed that
people who use Oracle don't want to run it under linux at all.
If I had to choose an open source OS to run Oracle, it would be a
Net/FreeBSD. This is, of course, not a rule.

[]s
Ricardo.

Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us> writes:

Oracle is now providing higher level support for United Linux than for
Red Hat Linux:
http://www.silicon.com/news/500011/1/3315.html

I don't see where in that you read that Oracle is offering a *higher*
level of support on UnitedLinux. It looks less to me than what they
currently do with Red Hat. Still, you are right that any support for
other Linux distros besides Red Hat won't make RH happy ...

regards, tom lane

Tom Lane wrote:

Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us> writes:

Oracle is now providing higher level support for United Linux than for
Red Hat Linux:
http://www.silicon.com/news/500011/1/3315.html

I don't see where in that you read that Oracle is offering a *higher*
level of support on UnitedLinux. It looks less to me than what they
currently do with Red Hat. Still, you are right that any support for
other Linux distros besides Red Hat won't make RH happy ...

You are right --- it wasn't clear how United Linux support is any
_better_ than for Red Hat. They talked about "Level 3 support" but
didn't say what the level was for Red Hat.

The News Forge comments also asked this question:

http://newsvac.newsforge.com/newsvac/03/03/17/1610236.shtml?tid=3

I also came across an interesting article about Oracle's Linux guy:

http://news.com.com/2008-1001-992907.html?tag=fd_nc_1

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