ORACLE AND REDHAT LINUX COMPARISON
Reason
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Oracle Linux
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Red Hat Enterprise
Linux
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Lower Cost
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Oracle Linux is free to download and
distribute
Free binaries, errata and updates
Support subscription for Oracle Linux is
simple and extremely affordable
Support costs can be up to 7 times lower
than Red Hat
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux cannot be
downloaded unless you buy a support subscription
Very high-cost subscriptions and add-ons
Complex licensing
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Management Tools
Included
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Oracle Linux Support customers get access to
free Oracle Linux server lifecycle management tools that are the equivalent
of Red Hat Satellite Server and associated modules
The same Oracle Enterprise Manager tool can
also be licensed to manage the entire solution from application to disk.
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Users have to license Red Hat Satellite
Server and associated modules for each server; the extra cost can quickly add
up
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High Availability
(HA) Included
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Oracle Linux includes OCFS2 and Oracle Linux
Basic and Premier Support subscribers have free access to Oracle Clusterware
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Red Hat charges separately for add-ons that
include clustering software for HA
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XFS Support included
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Oracle Linux Premier Support subscribers
have free support for XFS
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Red Hat charges separately for the XFS
add-ons
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Free Download of
Binaries and Source
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Oracle Linux installation media (DVD) are
free to download, use and distribute
All source code for Oracle Linux, including
source code for patches and errata are freely, publicly available
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux cannot be
downloaded unless you buy a support subscription
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Enterprise-Quality
Support with Premier Backporting
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Same level of 24/7 enterprise-class support
as Oracle Database
Backport bug fixes are available between
update releases without forcing customers to upgrade to the entire update
release
Zero downtime updates with Ksplice
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Various levels of support include business
hours only
Red Hat forces customers to upgrade to the
latest update release in order to apply only a few bug fixes
Need to re-boot for software updates and
patches
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Higher Performance
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Oracle's Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel
closely tracks the mainline kernel and offers customers access to the latest
Linux innovations
The Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel is fast,
modern, and reliable
New record-breaking TPC-C and
SPECjEnterprise2010 benchmark results
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 (RHEL5) is using
a four-year-old kernel, so customers using RHEL5 did not benefit from Linux
innovations
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Ease of Deployment
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To enable faster time to market for
customers, Oracle provides documented best practices with Oracle Validated
Configurations for Linux, which include recommendations on deploying
pretested stacks of server, storage, drivers, networking components, Oracle
Linux, and Oracle software in a physical and virtual environment
Oracle VM Templates offer pre-installed and
pre-configured images of enterprise software running on Linux, eliminating
the need to install and configure from scratch
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Red Hat does not offer such a program
Red Hat does not adequately test with Oracle
software
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Integrated with
Systems
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Oracle's Sun x86 servers come preinstalled
with Oracle VM and Oracle Linux; support for Oracle Linux is already included
with the Oracle Premier Support for Systems
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Red Hat needs to partner with other hardware
and software companies to offer full stack
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Fully Tested and
Ready for Data Center Deployments
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Oracle makes significant investment in
testing Linux internally, both in the development farm and Global IT
More than 80,000 hours of QA is run on
Oracle Linux servers each day in our development farm
More than 42,000 servers run Oracle Linux
supporting Oracle's Global IT
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Red Hat does not test with Oracle Database
and Oracle Applications
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Complete Solution
with a Single Point of Contact for Support
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Only Oracle offers a complete and
integrated, applications-to-disk Linux solution (servers, operating system,
database, and applications), including a single point of support—eliminating
finger pointing among various vendors
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Need to deal with numerous vendors for the
solution and for support
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