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Oh, yeah, it does.Oh, yeah, it does.Posted Mar 4, 2011 21:27 UTC (Fri) by khim (subscriber, #9252)In reply to: Commitment to Open (Red Hat News) by foom Parent article: Commitment to Open (Red Hat News)
Oracle selectively pulls changes needed to make RHEL programs happy, then add it's own patches and packages the result. Now they will have a dilemma: either use pure RHEL source (and forget about "latest and greatest" claims) or start actually making its own distro.
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Oh, yeah, it does. Posted Mar 4, 2011 21:58 UTC (Fri) by foom (subscriber, #14868) [Link]
I'm having a hard time imagining that there's very much from RHEL5's 2.6.18 kernel which is even applicable to Oracle's 2.6.32-based kernel.
But I guess RedHat is concerned that now that they're *also* using the 2.6.32 kernel, Oracle might stop bothering to maintain their own kernel from scratch and just use RHEL's with some extra patches on top, or something.
Oh, yeah, it does. Posted Mar 4, 2011 23:31 UTC (Fri) by ESRI (guest, #52806) [Link]
My question is -- does this mean Oracle Unbreakable Linux is gaining traction? Or is this a preemptive move from RH?
I never understood why, from a customer perspective, I'd want to use OEL instead of the "real thing" (RHEL). Plus, as big as Oracle is, RH has the bigger mindshare and expertise as far as kernel hackers and engineers (at least devoted to Linux) -- not to say Oracle doesn't have some quality people, just not as many.
I never thought OEL would really take off or be a threat to RHEL ...
Oh, yeah, it does. Posted Mar 7, 2011 13:40 UTC (Mon) by michel (subscriber, #10186) [Link]
You would think that, except that Oracle can simply declare their own kernel the only one 'tested and supported' for their database. As a customer of their database, why wouldn't I use it?
Having said all that, I have no clue how Oracle is going to continue to support their kernel once they've undermined RH enough. I'm sure not many of the RH engineers want to work for oracle (apparently not many of the Sun engineers did either...). I have this impression that for Larry Ellison it's all about winning, regardless of whether he's a winner of a wasteland, rather than a large participant in a vibrant ecosystem.
Oh, yeah, it does. Posted Mar 4, 2011 23:34 UTC (Fri) by SEJeff (subscriber, #51588) [Link]
This entire discussion is about RHEL6, not RHEL5.
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