[CLUE-Talk] Upcoming Oracle presentations question

[Jeff Cann]

On Monday 01 March 2004 3:28 pm, Nate Duehr wrote:
> On Mar 1, 2004, at 5:26 AM, Jeff Cann wrote:
> > On Sunday 29 February 2004 4:01 pm, Nate Duehr wrote:
> >> I still want to know why they don't officially support Debian Linux.
> >> (At least the "stable" branch.)
> >
> > However, because of the indeterminate number of possible
> > distributions and Oracle's desire to see customers succeed it is
> > necessary to
> > confine enterprise class support to those distributions that Oracle
> > believes
> > can be successfully deployed in enterprise class environments.
>
> Gee, I'll go let the folks I know that run hundreds of Debian machines
> in "enterprise-class environments" that they should shut their machines
> off and move to RedHat.
>
> Pure unadulterated FUD.

I disagree.  It's written to be read by CTO's, not techies.  To CTOs, 
'enterprise' does not include newsgroups and google for support.  Thus, they 
distinguish the 'commercial' distros.

You must have skipped over this part: 

<quote>
Oracle's products can be downloaded and installed on any Linux distribution. 
Oracle publishes the kernel configuration information so customers may choose 
to deploy Oracle on any Linux distribution, including ,one of their own 
making. 
</quote>

Doesn't seem too much like FUD, IMHO.

Later.
Jeff
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