On Sat, Apr 7, 2012 at 6:54 PM, Hakan Koseoglu <hakan at koseoglu.org> wrote: > On 7 April 2012 16:34, Peter Penzov <peter.penzov at gmail.com> wrote: > > I'm not interested in becoming a competitor in Red Hat's support > businesses > > I just want open source OS certified for installation by Oracle database > > which I can custom modify. I'm not interested in any kernel code > > modification or package source code modification. I just want to build > > custom OS with just changed name and color. Maybe deployed on no more > that > > 20 servers. > If you do this, your platform will not be certified by Oracle. You can > try and submit a new certification but them accepting it, in my > guess, would be an unlikely result. CentOS is not certified nor > supported by Oracle either. > > In the end there is nothing stopping you to do what you have described > but I question the value. I presume the servers you have will be used > for production, not development. Especially with the Oracle licencing > costs for ~20 servers, you better have supported platforms. Using > CentOS+Oracle for development environments will mean your servers will > not be supported by Oracle but at least you will have the support of > the CentOS community for the OS. I wonder how much quicker you would > be than the CentOS guys respond to updated packages and for how long > you would be able to keep up with the service (which in both aspects > the CentOS guys are excellent). > > The only Linux distributions supported by Oracle for Oracle database > are RHEL, OEL, SUSE SLES and finally Asianux. None of the other RHEL > derivatives are supported, neither Ubuntu (server or desktop variants, > TLS or non-TLS) nor openSUSE. (See Metalink ID 1304727.1). > > By the way, the removing of logos etc. are to comply with trademark > rules, not GPL. > I suppose you mean that I have to provide the full source code in order to be GPL compatible? Sure, not a problem. > _______________________________________________ > CentOS-devel mailing list > CentOS-devel at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-devel > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-devel/attachments/20120407/d2c038d6/attachment-0007.html>