Hi,
On Thu, Oct 10, 2002 at 09:37:00AM -0700, C. R. Oldham wrote: > Well, some of us do need Oracle for business reasons. And while I'm an > opensource advocate and choose opensource technology whenever it makes alter that to "whenever possible" for me, please. > sense, Oracle is a darned good database, with fairly good support. (if > you can afford it) In general, I can from a business plan perspective, BUT: > 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 When I lately asked Oracle about Debian and a support contract, they said: "We don't support Debian." To my question, what would happen if I buy a support contract, they said, that there will be no support even if I pay a 24x7 support contract, so I can as well throw the money down the sewer. > run into anything that might be distribution-related Oracle Support will > bill you T&M to resolve the issue. They gave the appearance of wanting to not deal with the issue at all, rather than resolve it on an hourly rate basis, which I consider MUCH WORSE. That effectively rules out Oracle on Debian when a support contract is required for any reason(s). Best, --Toni++
