[ShadowAce]

Yeah, but OEL sucks. For version 6, they use a RHEL 5 kernel and RHEL 6 packages. It's so mixed up that you cannot just go out and find software you need/want. You have to use their own repositories, and it's a nightmare to administer.

It's another form of vendor lockin.

[Ghost of SVR4]

Sorry to hear of your experience. I have been using it for RAC’s. Combined with the UEK kernel and ASM libraries baked into their offering, administration has become far easier.
The front end is running JVM’s, so that suck is there regardless of platform OS.

[zeugma]

Yeah, but OEL sucks. For version 6, they use a RHEL 5 kernel and RHEL 6 packages. It's so mixed up that you cannot just go out and find software you need/want. You have to use their own repositories, and it's a nightmare to administer. It's another form of vendor lockin.

I saw the evil of oracle up close and personal in how they started licensing Weblogic after they absorbed BEA. We had a hell of a time upgrading some major app servers because of the difference between grandfathered licenses, and new ones you had to get if you virtualized. We were quoted $1M for licensing alone on a set of clusters we wanted to migrate from P2V.

Between that, and the directory mess you get when you installed the oracle branded apache for oracle financials, and I wanted to gag.