From: Edward Shevtsov (edward.shevtsov@mail.ru)
Date: Thu Oct 03 2002 - 09:47:52 CEST
From: "Edward Shevtsov" <edward.shevtsov@mail.ru> Date: Thu, 03 Oct 2002 11:47:52 +0400 Message-Id: <E17x0i8-000Bjc-00@f6.mail.ru> Subject: Re: [suse-oracle] Re: SuSE vs RedHat with Oracle - FYI
>
> > Michael,
> >
> > I have been very concerned about a trend that appears
> > to be developing concerning Oracle and RedHat. There
> > is an increasing amount of press stating that Oracle
> > has been working closely with RedHat to make Oracle
> > scalable on linux, particulary RH's Advanced Server.
> > However, there seems to be a lack of press regarding
> > Oracle's relationship with SuSE
> >...
> > What is happening? Am I simply missing the
> > SuSE/Oracle press releases or has RedHat repaired
> > their relationship with Oracle and getting
> > preferential treatment over SuSE?
> >
> > Sincerely,
> > John
>
>
> Hi John,
>
> Since this is a common question I make the response to the mailing
> lists, if you don't mind.
>
>
> The answer is very simple: We and Oracle are working on the next major
> product, which will be United Linux, and UL based products from
> Conectiva (Brasil), TurboLinux (Japan), SCO (was: Caldera), and SuSE
> will be announced in the middle of November.
>
> Until then we simply have no news to report, simply because there is
> none - SLES-7 was and is porting platform at Oracle for all 9i based
> products, i.e. all available right now, and we are not working on it any
> more (except for maintenance of course!) but concentrate all new
> development efforts on the new product, so there really are now news
> items for SLES-7.
>
>
> Oracle has not changed their position, for a long time they have been
> saying and continue to do so that they support exactly two Linux
> distributions: RedHat and SuSE, and since SuSE is the project leader and
> producer of the United Linux it means they end up supporting all four
> Linux companies working on UL based products - a development which
> Oracle certainly doesn't mind!
>
Michael,
is UL going to be positioned as "server edition" like SLES7 or RH AS with longer support period and closer relationship to Oracle? Or will SuSE build a separate UL-based release for these purposes?
TIA,
Ed
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