RE: EXTERNAL: OT: Linux vendor survey results
- From: "Uzzell, Stephan" <SUzzell@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "'matt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx'" <matt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, "chris.grabowy@xxxxxxxx" <chris.grabowy@xxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 3 Dec 2013 15:05:56 +0000
We chose OEL for the reason Hans described last week (incidentally, I love this
description and am stealing it :)): 'one throat to choke'
We have had too many cases of Oracle and Microsoft pointing fingers at each
other... We considered RHEL, but decided that not letting Oracle blame another
vendor was pretty important.
Stephan Uzzell
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Sent: Tuesday, 03 December, 2013 09:37
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Subject: Re: EXTERNAL: OT: Linux vendor survey results
From my discussions with people who switched to OEL, it's two things:
- OEL is cheaper than Red Hat, at least for those without all-you-can-eat
enterprise licenses
- People prefer calling Oracle for support on their entire platform, at least
for their database servers, which strikes me as crazy, but hey, what do I know
It's worth noting that I have never met a company that has moved *all* of their
servers to OEL, just ones that have moved their database servers.
Matt
On Tue, Dec 3, 2013 at 9:30 AM, Grabowy, Chris
<chris.grabowy@xxxxxxxx<mailto:chris.grabowy@xxxxxxxx>> wrote:
So I am not surprised by the answers for the first two questions.
However for the third question I am surprised that 62% favor Oracle Linux.
My limited understanding is that for the most part Oracle Linux is a copy of
Redhat Linux. And that Oracle has made some changes to Oracle Linux, but are
those changes that compelling? Or is there some other factor that I am missing
here?
Thanks,
Chris
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