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I'm totally with you on fear of lockin, but for what it's worth, this particular case is basically the opposite of lock-in. You can, at any time, switch away t

by wdaher 14y ago

I'm totally with you on fear of lockin, but for what it's worth, this particular case is basically the opposite of lock-in. You can, at any time, switch away to CentOS, Scientific Linux, or Red Hat (if you're willing to write the check) and not have to totally reinvent your stack from scratch, since they're all binary-compatible.

moe 14y ago
Then why mess with Oracle to begin with? There are so many mature linux distros to choose from and plenty have trustworthy, battle-tested, commercial support-options if that's what you need. I can't come up with a plausible reason why anyone would even consider Oracle.
- joshAg 14y ago
  Because "Nobody ever got fired for buying IBM".
- taligent 14y ago
  Because if it is more secure and offers more functionality than CentOS then why wouldn't I consider it ?
rytis 14y ago
I can only see centos2ol.sh on that page. Was looking really hard, but failed to notice ol2centos.sh anywhere... Oh, I need to write my own? Or will Oracle help me? For free?
- wdaher 14y ago
  '--reverse' is on my wishlist as well, and I want to see it implemented, if nothing else because it makes the whole situation less scary-looking.