Re: SuSe and Oracle11- why SLES9 is not supported while RHEL4 (and OL4) are supported?

Hi Hakan,

>>> On 8/13/2007 at 4:52 AM, "Hakan Koseoglu" <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi Arun,
> On 8/10/07, Arun Singh <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 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 :-)
> 
> This is not always possible and not because we don't want to. It is
> because Novell won't release the software. Let me explain: We use IBM
> IRES where possible, NLPOS where not and sometimes, when the customer
> specifies the OS, Windows. I really wonder when will NLPOS for SLES10
> will be out so that IBM can build their next version IRES, no one
> knows. I reckon the real answer is: never.

Appears that NLPOS 10 is in development (Not an authorized answer ;-)). 

I will forward your remarks to NLPOS product managers and let them answer to your concerns directly.

> 
> Looking at Novell's 2007 August support CD/DVD breakdown, there is no
> mention of NLPOS modifications whereas DVD9A is for SLED10SP1. Since
> NLPOS is based directly on SLED, I really wonder what is holding it
> up.

Derivative products such as NLPOS always lags the based product.

> 
> Obviously, if some of your servers need to be SLES9 (you need it for
> IRES/NLPOS), there is no reason why you should be installing SLES10 or
> even 11 on anything.

Agree. One needs to evaluate about the availability of all the needed components.

-Arun




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