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. mark