Oh, yeah, it does. [LWN.net]

Oh, yeah, it does.

Posted Mar 4, 2011 23:31 UTC (Fri) by ESRI (guest, #52806)
In reply to: Oh, yeah, it does. by foom
Parent article: Commitment to Open (Red Hat News)

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 ...

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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.