On Fri, 20 Mar 2009 11:11:42 +0800 John Peter Loh <[email protected]> wrote:
> I was thinking ArchLinux (and FreeBSD). He he. Like I said, too much > to ask. In practice what you really get when you buy an Oracle license isn't so much the right to simply use the software as the right to ask for support from Oracle when things go wrong, and in mission-critical environments, enterprises tend to want to know that they'll have someone to blame and fall back on to fix it immediately when that inevitably happens. That means that the operating system must also be covered by a similar support contract in case it's operating system issues that are causing problems. Can you buy an enterprise support contract for ArchLinux or FreeBSD? Didn't think so. Perhaps someday Canonical might make overtures to Oracle to begin supporting Oracle on Ubuntu Server Edition, which was, after all, the same process Red Hat and Novell did to get Oracle support for their distributions, but so far it would seem that Canonical isn't making moves in this direction. Someone has to ask Oracle to support their software on some platform. They aren't going to simply pick up some random platform not backed by anyone and get Oracle to run on it just because, since doing so represents a serious investment on their part without clear possibilities for return. -- You are still innocent until proven guilty. What has changed is what they do to innocent people. http://stormwyrm.blogspot.com
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