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I never really understood why Oracle forked RH into their own distro, but from this now I can see - it was to essentially demonstrate the cessation of their sup

by dotBen 16y ago

I never really understood why Oracle forked RH into their own distro, but from this now I can see - it was to essentially demonstrate the cessation of their support of RedHat (given that LE was claiming in the FT piece that Oracle was supporting/helping RedHat at the time) by giving them a little kick in nuts. I think the customers that bought up Oracle Linux were the kind of dumb sheep customers who'll buy anything a vendor pushes them (yes, there are many of those out there). Informed customers not happy with RHEL licensing and support simply swap out to CentOS. It's an interesting examination of customer behavior in fact.

ora600 16y ago
Actually, the customers that use OEL are normally customers of the Oracle database. They get the OS for free as part of the license deal and enjoy not having to play the finger-pointing game with Oracle and RH support any more. You have no idea what a relief it is when your DB vendor can't blame the OS for bugs and performance problems, and actually have to solve them. Thats why we love it when Oracle does storage, network and hardware (i.e. Exadata) - we love having one throat to choke.