Somebody in Oracle told me, they need one year to test, I'm not sure, it's true or not. At 2012-01-02 Mon 09:46 -0600，Johnny Hughes wrote： > On 01/01/2012 06:07 PM, Christopher J. Buckley wrote: > > On 29 December 2011 19:15, Johnny Hughes <johnny at centos.org> wrote: > >> 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. > > > > Really? In what way, out of interest? > > > > Hint: they're not. > > > > I am talking about likely preexisting contracts between Red Hat and > Oracle where new products are certified in a timely matter. > > This is an example of a disputed contract between Oracle and another party: > > http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-06-15/hp-sues-oracle-in-california-over-breach-of-contract-claims.html > > (Note: I am not saying one or the other party in the above are right or > wrong, just showing it as an example of the kinds of partnership > agreements that Oracle has with other companies) > > 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. > > Maybe Oracle does not have a preferred agreement with Red Hat to certify > future products in a timely manner ... but I would find that highly > unlikely. > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 490 bytes Desc: ??????????? URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20120104/ec213242/attachment-0005.sig>