Oracle responds to Red Hat

  • Zeth0s@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    What I don’t understand is: who is using oracle linux? Never heard of a single person or company using it?

    One must be really far from linux to choose oracle linux among hundreds of available distros

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      1 year ago

      One must be really far from linux to choose oracle linux among hundreds of available distros

      Not really a choice when the products they sell (their database/cloud solutions) are tied to it or RHEL. But yeah, I doubt there’s many who’d call it their favorite distro

    • Hexadecimalkink@lemmy.ml
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      It would be corporate clients that are already all on Oracle for their careers. I’ve met guys that have built their entire career on Oracle and if you suggest any other software they’ll try to politically assassinate you. Some people just care about money not the work they do.

    • DawnOfRiku@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      If you’re using a software suite that requires Oracle Database, it and RHEL are safe options. It’s used where I work for that reason, but only relating to said software. This vendor only officially supports those 2 distros, and to a lesser extent Windows.

    • Molecular0079@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      Me neither. And I always wondered why you wouldn’t just go directly to the source and go with RedHat for enterprise usecases. Perhaps cheaper support contracts?

      • smo@lemmy.sdf.org
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        We struggled with red hat because our product is usually in airgapped installations. We know how many we’ve sold, but we don’t know how many are still in use.

        Say a customer buys one unit. Then 5 years later, they replace it. And 5 years on, they replace it again. On the books that’s 3 sold. We don’t know that two were retired, we don’t know these are all the same installation. So red hat wants us to pay 3 annual licences for this, and those licences don’t end until we can prove the installation was retired. The costs effectively snowball indefinitely.

        We wanted to pay - it was the easiest route to certain federal qualifications. But we couldn’t come to an agreement on how to pay.

    • Major Alvega@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      Mostly big businesses running Oracle databases.

      Plenty of them too. Banks, insurance, industry… anything that has the money and is “older”.