Re: can I use Redhat enterprise for free

Jan Gerrit Kootstra wrote:
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I am afraid Oracle Enterprise Linux will not be for free. Oracle gives me the impression that you will need a subscription just like RHEL. I am not sure.

Oracle is an odd duck in this. Way back when, when I first install RH 5.something and registered as a user about a month later a CD of Oracle arrived in the mail. It was about $800 at the time but maybe it was the previous release. Installation was way over my head as a newbie so it was a waste of money on their part. I never got into it.

That Oracle is back trying to fo find a position in linux is interesting. The early strategy I experienced appears to have been making new linux users familiar with their product. Now they have a more aggressive interest in linux.

One has to be slightly curious if their idea is to create a custom version of linux for their main product that would primarily run on database servers rather than a generic distribution.

As long as the computers are generic linux then they can talk to each other and an Oracle server optimized linux for some of the computers is a good strategy but only if there is a way to optimize for Oracle itself. That is not clear.

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