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

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.