Oracle extends Linux support to 10 years
Found on The Register on Thursday, 23 February 2012
Oracle has reaffirmed that it's in the Linux business to stay by extending the support lifecycle of its own-brand build to ten years, and tempting Red Hat users with a trial offer of its Ksplice patching system.
"With the innovative zero-downtime update capabilities delivered through Ksplice, and the extended support lifecycle for Oracle Linux, Oracle continues to set the industry standard for Linux in the enterprise," said Wim Coekaerts, Oracle vice president of Linux and virtualization engineering, in a canned statement.
Not really much of a surprise when you know that Redhat has extented its support for the RHEL spins to 10 years. You also need to know that Oracle's Linux is simply a respin from the sources released by Redhat, sold by Oracle. So Redhat is doing the work and Oracle is leeching from it. Summing all this up, I'll stay away from Oracle's copy; after all, who would prefer the chinese knockoffs?