Re: Red Hat snubbed by Oracle

Tom Lane wrote:
> Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> writes:
> > Oracle is now providing higher level support for United Linux than for
> > Red Hat Linux:
> > http://www.silicon.com/news/500011/1/3315.html
>
> I don't see where in that you read that Oracle is offering a *higher*
> level of support on UnitedLinux. It looks less to me than what they
> currently do with Red Hat. Still, you are right that any support for
> other Linux distros besides Red Hat won't make RH happy ...

You are right --- it wasn't clear how United Linux support is any
_better_ than for Red Hat. They talked about "Level 3 support" but
didn't say what the level was for Red Hat.

The News Forge comments also asked this question:

http://newsvac.newsforge.com/newsvac/03/03/17/1610236.shtml?tid=3

I also came across an interesting article about Oracle's Linux guy:

http://news.com.com/2008-1001-992907.html?tag=fd_nc_1

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