* Which Linux vendors made it onto Oracle list?
While Oracle says it will play well with most Linux platforms and server hardware, the company is singling out a few Linux software and server/storage hardware product combinations with a new level of software certification.
While Oracle says it will play well with most Linux platforms and server hardware, the company is singling out a few Linux software and server/storage hardware product combinations with a new level of software certification.
Oracle’s Validated Configurations is a program where Oracle will work with Linux server software and hardware vendors to build, test and certify combinations of products on which Oracle software is guaranteed to run without underlying interoperability issues. The first batch of five Oracle-Validated product combinations includes Oracle Database 10g running on:
* Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 (RHEL 4) on Dell Power Edge 6850 servers.
* RHEL 4 on HP ProLiant DL380 servers.
* RHEL 4 HP ProLiant DL585.
* SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 9 (SLES 9) on IBM’s BladeCenter HS20.
* SLES 9 on IBM eServer 326.
Complete details on what will work with what, and storage options for Oracle 10g can be found here.
Oracle says it will expand its list of certified hardware/software/storage configurations beyond large enterprise IT partners to regional technology vendors, such as Asianux, maker of the Red Flag Linux distribution that’s becoming popular in China.
Naming specific server configurations on which Oracle 10g was put through the paces is useful for large organizations that may have a preference for a certain hardware vendor or Linux flavor. Hopefully, Oracle’s certified list will grow to become a broad-reaching reference guide for running Oracle databases on Linux; what would be bad is if Oracle were to limit its list to a few configurations with only a select few vendors, which runs counter to the concept of open-source systems.
