Re: What is needed to go p*production* with Oracle on Linux? (Was: Oracle + SLES-7)

On Friday 26 September 2003 16:48, Michael Hasenstein wrote: 
> 1) A Linux that's part of the Oracle campaign "Unbreakable Linux", e.g.
> SLES-8 2) A current maintenance contract with the OS vendor, that's SuSE
> 3) An Oracle support contract (which will also take care of any OS issues!)


Hi, 

I forgot to say that since SLES-7 is also Oracle certified this also works 
with SLES-7, in theory - but in practice, since SLES-8 
- has been tested much more rigorously
- is part of "Unbreakable Linux"
- is a free upgrade! 

You may just be asked to upgrade if you encounter any serious issues. Oracle 
support is your (support) interface so I can't say for sure what they'll do 
(probably depends on the case), but especially if you are doing the 
deployment only now there's no reason not to do the free upgrade. 

The most important part of my message was that you have to contact *Oracle* 
support if there are any issues, including for the OS - as far as it's Oracle 
related only of course. Example: It's the Oracle workload that somehow 
crashes your system: call Oracle, although it's likely we, SuSE, end up 
finding a patch (Oracle support will sort that out and do that for you). If 
you have trouble setting up sendmail in SLES-8: it's not Oracle related, 
you'd have to call SuSE... (but here on this mailinglist we're talking about 
Oracle problems only, right). 


Sorry for using so many words, I didn't have time to write a SHORT summary ;-) 


Regards, 
Michael