With free clustering for Unbreakable Linux, Oracle goes after Red Hat (SearchEnterpriseLinux) [LWN.net]

With free clustering for Unbreakable Linux, Oracle goes after Red Hat (SearchEnterpriseLinux)

Posted Mar 27, 2008 22:29 UTC (Thu) by lmb (subscriber, #39048)
In reply to: With free clustering for Unbreakable Linux, Oracle goes after Red Hat (SearchEnterpriseLinux) by marduk
Parent article: With free clustering for Unbreakable Linux, Oracle goes after Red Hat (SearchEnterpriseLinux)

openSUSE and Enterprise Server are not quite based on Red Hat.

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server also happens to include clustering "for free" in the base.

Compared to both RHEL's and SLES's clustering products though, Clusterware is not exactly hot.
Proprietary, limited in features ...

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With free clustering for Unbreakable Linux, Oracle goes after Red Hat (SearchEnterpriseLinux)

Posted Mar 29, 2008 0:47 UTC (Sat) by drag (guest, #31333) [Link] (1 responses)

> Proprietary, limited in features ...

Proprietary? Where?

I don't know much about Novell's offerings, but all of Redhat's stuff is open source that I
know about...

Look:
https://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/csgfs/browse/rh-cs-en...

That's their offering. I didn't look through all the spec files for those packages, but I
looked through a half a dozen or so (magma, ccsd, GFS, etc) and they were all licensed GPL. On
top of that GFS is available from Debian also.. kernel modules and everything from 'Main'
Testing/Unstable.



Oh and BTW. The article is a bit misleading (or press release or whatever)
http://www.redhat.com/cluster_suite/
> Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Advanced Platform
> With the release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Advanced Platform, Red Hat Cluster Suite and
Global File System are now included in the subscription offering.
> Red Hat Cluster Suite and Global File System are still available as layered offerings for
Red Hat Enterprise Linux versions 3 and 4.

Oracle is just matching upstream, that's all...

With free clustering for Unbreakable Linux, Oracle goes after Red Hat (SearchEnterpriseLinux)

Posted Mar 29, 2008 0:50 UTC (Sat) by drag (guest, #31333) [Link]

Oh.. 

I read your statement wrong. I thought were meaning 'clusterware from Redhat/Suse' was
proprietary, not 'Clusterware(tm) from Oracle' compared to Suse/Redhat like you meant it.

Sorry for the misunderstanding. My fault.