Re: SuSe and Oracle11- why SLES9 is notsupported while RHEL4 (and OL4) are supported?

Problem is that adopting SLES10 makes a lot of tropubles and dont bring any 
value.

Examples:
- iSCSI - SLES10 missed multiport support and used tricked and very 
unconvenient open-iSCSI insrtead of well-tested and reliable Cisco-iscsi in 
SLES8, SLES9, RHEL4 and UL4.
- DataGuard tests @ SLES10 shows strange lost of SQL*Net connection because 
of async io problem with the network;
- numerous people reports OCFSv2 problems with SLES10
- numerous reports or RAC cluster problems
- SLES10 can't work with Oracle9i. In reality you can't migrate because of 
this, if you use Oracle9i.
- SLES10 your system is a mess.

Sysadmins are not dumb - seen all this, they select RHEL4 or UL4 - these 2 
systems are well compatible with all Oracle versions (I can even run 
Oracle8i on RHEL4, with some hacks) and are rock-solid.

It became more difficult to support SLES vs RHEL/UL after Oracle11 
announcement.

PS. The same happen with SLES8 - very solid system was abandoned by Novell - 
when RHEL and others supported new ET64T cpu-s on their RHEL3 systems, 
Novell did not adapted SLES8 onto it.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Arun Singh" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Friday, August 10, 2007 2:10 PM
Subject: Re: [suse-oracle] SuSe and Oracle11- why SLES9 is notsupported 
while RHEL4 (and OL4) are supported?


>>> On 8/10/2007 at 1:43 PM, "Alexei_Roudnev" 
>>> <[email protected]>
wrote:
> http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/B28359_01/install.111/b32002/pre_install.h
> tm#CIHFICFD
>
> Compatibility:
>
> RHEL4 and RHEL5 (reasonable - old and solid RHEL4, and next generation
> RHEL5)
> Oracle Linux 4 and 5 (the same)
> AsiaLinux 2 and 3 (the same)
> SLES10 and no SLES9 !
...
>
> Is it because of Oracle or because of SuSe?

I guess Oracle made informed decision to support only SLES10 (and possibly 
future SLES11 release), similar to Oracle 10gR2. No surprise here.

We (Novell/SUSE) recommend customers to start adopting SLES10 SP1 to make it 
even better platform :-)

-Arun




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