[CentOS] Centos 6.X compatible to ORACLE DB verssion????

m.roth at 5-cent.us m.roth at 5-cent.us
Thu Dec 29 19:19:34 UTC 2011


Johnny Hughes wrote:
> On 12/29/2011 01:01 PM, John Broome wrote:
>> On Thu, Dec 29, 2011 at 13:57, John R Pierce <pierce at hogranch.com>
>> wrote:
>>> On 12/29/11 4:30 AM, mcclnx mcc wrote:
>>>> Does anyone know CENTOS/Redhat 6.X compatible to ORACLE software (X86
>>>> and X86_64) version like 9.X, 10GR2, 11G and 11GR2.
>>>
>>> 11.2.0.3(I think is latest?) seems to work fine on CentOS 6.1, however
>>> RHEL6 (and all versions of CentOS) are completely unsupported by
>>> Oracle, so I wouldn't plan on using it for any sort of production
>>> where you expect support.  there were some minor ignorable issues in
>>> install, like it claimed the system is missing some old packages
>>
>> So if oracle isn't certified to run on OEL 6, did oracle roll it out
>> just for shits and giggles?
>
> No, they rolled it out as a Linux distribution.  Believe it or not,
> people do other things besides run Oracle databases on Linux :)
>
> I am sure they will certify their database systems on OEL 6.x in the
> future.
>
> They can't very well (at least not with a straight face) tell Red Hat
> that RHEL6 is not certified while saying that OEL6 is certified can
> they?  If they do that for very long, they will be breaching their
> support agreements.
<snip>
Let me also note that whatever else Oracle is, they're not stupid when it
comes to selling, and there are many, many more RHEL installations than
there are OUL.

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