On Thu, Oct 10, 2002 at 09:37:00AM -0700, C. R. Oldham wrote: > > On Thu, Oct 10, 2002 at 07:07:31PM +1000, Jason Lim wrote: > > > Well, I think you'd be in the minority of you don't care if vendors > > > officially support Debian. From a commercial perspective, > > what happens > > > if your tech support department calls up the vendor asking for some > > > assistance, and as soon as you tell them you're running > > Debian, they > > > go all quiet? > > > > -What- vendor? > > > > (And, yep, RMS would be proud of my servers. :)) > > Well, some of us do need Oracle for business reasons. And while I'm an > opensource advocate and choose opensource technology whenever it makes > sense, Oracle is a darned good database, with fairly good support. (if > you can afford it) > > Now, back on topic, I'm pretty sure that Oracle's unspoken policy is > that if you have Oracle on Debian (a non-certified platform according to > them) your support contract is still good up to a point. As soon as you > run into anything that might be distribution-related Oracle Support will > bill you T&M to resolve the issue.
Oracle makes an interesting example. The problems I ran into installing oracle on debian were related to that goddamn [EMAIL PROTECTED] installer and the stub libs required for post (re)linking (version 8.something). IMCO an rpm would be way better than that installer. I'm not sure that a bastard installer constitutes "LSB support"; seems to me it just made life hard. YMMV, my experience is a year or so out of date. DB2, OTOH, rpm -> alien -> deb and it just worked on our "unsupported" platform. > > -- > C. R. Oldham > Director of Technology > NCA CASI > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -- Christopher F. Miller, Publisher [EMAIL PROTECTED] MaineStreet Communications, Inc 208 Portland Road, Gray, ME 04039 1.207.657.5078 http://www.maine.com/ Content/site management, online commerce, internet integration, Debian linux
