Well in places like the Philippines, arguably Oracle has a better support organization than Red Hat.
Also I stand corrected regarding "exactly" -- apparently, OEL also incorporates bug fixes put in by Oracle, and which will be rolled forward/contributed back to Red Hat (if they will take it). Regarding the vendor lock-in, well practically speaking once you get that Oracle DB into your data center, you're pretty much stuck. On 2/15/07, Harish Pillay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Oracle Enterprise Linux sounds like a linux distro with a better > brand name. it would attract local large enterprises that are > really conscious with brands when using any technologies. Would you really buy "OEL" because of the Oracle name? Are CIOs that naive? From all the CIOs I have had a chance to talk to, the common trend is that they rather *not* have to fork out to Oracle any more than they are already being forced to and to become beholden to one vendor aka vendor lock-in.
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