RE: centos to redhat

Mike,
I have been using Fedora (redhat community version) on few dev/test boxes. On 
production/staging we stick to supported distros for want of support continuity 
and to adhere to oracle's licensing terms.  If you have paid oracle's support 
cost, I don't think you should have problem with bearing the os cost (these 
decisions would have been taken during the initial purchase/vendor selection 
phase). 

Your sysadmin is technically correct as all distros use the same base kernel 
(with additional dependent packages). What is required is to look at the 
selection from business continuity and licensing requirement point of view. 

Others in this forum will also warn you on this, it all part of vendor 
relationship management. 

If you want a more concrete fact, raise an SR with oracle on this and hear 
their opinion.

thanks! 
amar kumar padhi 
www.amar-padhi.com
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-----Original Message-----
From: "Michael McMullen" <ganstadba@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: 29-09-07 02:52
Subject: centos to redhat

Forgive me if I'm missing anything or my terminology is incorrect. I've been 
on linux for < 8 months
My SA's put centos on our dev servers to save licencing costs. From metalink 
I see that Centos is not supported. That's fine it's dev. But for one of our 
prod servers they put it on and then just switched a line in a file to have 
it show as RedHat. They said that's the only difference and it's fine. I'm 
just worried somewhere down the line an RDA with oracle will show Centos and 
then no support.
Any thoughts on this?

Thanks
Mike 

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