Re: Advice needed : Oracle and Debian Linux

2003-06-20 Thread Kevin Kreamer
Michael Meskes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Fri, Jun 20, 2003 at 12:53:34AM +1000, Russell Coker wrote: >> As for the support people, I don't think that necessarily makes it >> impossible. >> If you started up a company to produce a commercial distribution based on >> Debian for running Ora

Re: Advice needed : Oracle and Debian Linux

2003-06-20 Thread Michael Meskes
On Fri, Jun 20, 2003 at 12:53:34AM +1000, Russell Coker wrote: > As for the support people, I don't think that necessarily makes it > impossible. > If you started up a company to produce a commercial distribution based on > Debian for running Oracle then having your people answer the phones at

Re: Advice needed : Oracle and Debian Linux

2003-06-19 Thread Russell Coker
On Thu, 19 Jun 2003 23:50, Michael Meskes wrote: > On Wed, Jun 18, 2003 at 10:13:17PM +1000, Russell Coker wrote: > > 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 th

Re: Advice needed : Oracle and Debian Linux

2003-06-19 Thread Michael Meskes
On Wed, Jun 18, 2003 at 10:13:17PM +1000, Russell Coker wrote: > 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.

Re: Advice needed : Oracle and Debian Linux

2003-06-19 Thread Michael Meskes
On Wed, Jun 18, 2003 at 01:06:46PM +0200, Antonio Pïrez Pïrez wrote: > A "little" question from an user: > What could Debian do to be supported by Oracle? Nothing. Sorry, but that's the way it is. To become supported by Oracle you have to make sure enough of your people are sitting at the Oracle

Re: Advice needed : Oracle and Debian Linux

2003-06-18 Thread Russell Coker
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

Re: Advice needed : Oracle and Debian Linux

2003-06-18 Thread Antonio Pérez Pérez
On Sun, Jun 15, 2003 at 01:05:13PM +0100, Steve Kemp wrote: > On Sun, Jun 15, 2003 at 01:51:46PM +0200, Michael Meskes wrote: > > > Oracle will refuse to give you any support unless you run redhat. They > > do tell you privately that it works nicely on debian, but no official > > support will be g