On 2 January 2012 15:46, Johnny Hughes johnny@centos.org wrote:
And my point is, right now Oracle can say that they have not certified their own OEL6 either ... therefore, one can not expect RHEL6 to be certified either. If they certify OEL6 for a version of Oracle Database, it would be difficult for them to tell Red Hat that they can not certify RHEL6 or that there are issues with that version of their Oracle Database.
It is their software, I am sure they can certify against any arbitrary OS as they like. I don't believe they have any agreement with anyone for any future support. They have been de-supporting other platforms at will (well, no one is going to cry after loss of Titanic support, I am sure about that). Worse, they can say 'RHEL only with Unbreakable Kernel' which they have already started to state for various technologies (i.e., ASMLib). (Now I am way off topic here) It is obvious that their whole plan is to somehow get RedHat bankrupt so that they can buy it cheap. There's no other explanation about their OEL support policy & prices.I admit all they to is within GPL therefore legal but just not nice. I don't have to like it. Unfortunately at work for various reason I am using more and more OEL than RHEL.
More than once I had trouble with differences between OEL Ubreakable Kernel and std. upstream/Centos kernels. As far as I can see, pretty soon I cannot treat OEL as an identical platform (like CentOS) to upstream and expect things just work,