On Wed, 18 Jun 2003 21:06, Antonio Pérez Pérez wrote: > A "little" question from an user: > What could Debian do to be supported by Oracle? > Is there any way to contact them and become a supported distribution?
I am not aware of what might be necessary for this, but I imagine it to be similar to the requirements for SAP support. Some time ago I spoke with a SAP employee who uses Debian for his own personal use about getting SAP support. He told me that due to some German laws about liability for failures etc SAP is unwilling to support any distribution that is not commercial. If a buggy kernel causes data loss then someone has to be held accountable, Debian can't and SAP is unwilling to take the responsibility themselves for what might happen when running their software on a kernel that they have not tested. The kernels from ftp.kernel.org don't seem to meet the requirements for serious database use. If a company wants to make a commercial distribution based on Debian then providing that they accept certain kernel patches and comply with a rigorous test program then I think that SAP would be interested in dealing with them. I imagine that the situation will be similar for Oracle. Lindows is not suitable for such things. Are there any other Debian-based commercial distributions that are still going? -- http://www.coker.com.au/selinux/ My NSA Security Enhanced Linux packages http://www.coker.com.au/bonnie++/ Bonnie++ hard drive benchmark http://www.coker.com.au/postal/ Postal SMTP/POP benchmark http://www.coker.com.au/~russell/ My home page
