On 01/23/2010 01:07 PM, Robert P. J. Day wrote: >> Price ? > > OEL 5.4 is freely downloadable so i'm guessing that's not it. either you or I are missing something here. downloadable != maintainable. besides Oracle's offering does not get the vendor endorsement that CentOS does mostly due to the fact that they use a different toolchain than rhel and they have a different patchset. Vendor and platform endorsement on oracle's offering was not even into double digits a few months back, whereas rhel ( and therefore centos's ) was into 4 digits. - KB