From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 16908 invoked by uid 1002); 5 Dec 2003 21:36:57 -0600 Mailing-List: contact gentoo-dev-help@gentoo.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Received: (qmail 6401 invoked from network); 5 Dec 2003 21:36:57 -0600 Message-ID: <3FD14E60.4010300@gentoo.org> Date: Fri, 05 Dec 2003 22:34:56 -0500 From: Corey Shields Organization: Gentoo Linux Infrastructure Team User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20031128 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org References: <1070653863.12159.49.camel@lisa.thedoh.com> <200312051510.36537.simpsonb@hillsboroughcounty.org> <20031205204513.GA29185@cerberus.oppresses.us> <20031205213358.GB8394@linguo.lan.seiler.us> In-Reply-To: <20031205213358.GB8394@linguo.lan.seiler.us> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo for production servers. X-Archives-Salt: ccd51693-0f8d-4c0c-88ba-d348df004a77 X-Archives-Hash: c16a6c8e385c7b819034a2711dd48f37 Don Seiler wrote: > I've mentioned this before but Oracle also only officially supports SUSE > and RHAS. Mainly because of the less "variable" (I suppose one could > say "fluid") nature of those distros. I can definitely see that point > of view. > > So, regardless of Gartner's past FUD, this isn't a totally wacky notion. But if you are going to spend the money required for Oracle, then you should spend the money it takes to run a distribution that guarantees support for Oracle. If price is an issue, there are OSS alternatives.. Cheers! -- Corey Shields - Gentoo Linux Infrastructure Team http://www.gentoo.org/~cshields -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list