On 01/05/12 2:11 PM, Pasi Kärkkäinen wrote: > http://en.community.dell.com/techcenter/b/techcenter/archive/2012/01/03/dell-engineering-preview-oracle-11gr2-rac-on-rhel6.aspx > http://en.community.dell.com/techcenter/enterprise-solutions/w/oracle_solutions/3336.aspx the bottom line for Oracle Support is whatever Oracle says they support. last I looked, EL6 wasn't on that list (nor is ANY version of CentOS) http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E11882_01/install.112/e16763/pre_install.htm#CIHFICFD this doesn't mean it won't work, but what it does mean is that if something goes sideways on you, oracle won't help you one bit, and since you pay a substantial chunk of money annually for that precious support, its insane NOT to use a supported platform. -- john r pierce N 37, W 122 santa cruz ca mid-left coast