Tuesday 15 April 2014

ORACLE AND REDHAT LINUX COMPARISON

ORACLE AND REDHAT LINUX COMPARISON
Reason
Oracle Linux
Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Lower Cost
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
Red Hat Enterprise Linux cannot be downloaded unless you buy a support subscription
Very high-cost subscriptions and add-ons
Complex licensing
Management Tools Included
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.
Users have to license Red Hat Satellite Server and associated modules for each server; the extra cost can quickly add up
High Availability (HA) Included
Oracle Linux includes OCFS2 and Oracle Linux Basic and Premier Support subscribers have free access to Oracle Clusterware
Red Hat charges separately for add-ons that include clustering software for HA
XFS Support included
Oracle Linux Premier Support subscribers have free support for XFS
Red Hat charges separately for the XFS add-ons
Free Download of Binaries and Source
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
Red Hat Enterprise Linux cannot be downloaded unless you buy a support subscription
Enterprise-Quality Support with Premier Backporting
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
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
Higher Performance
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
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 (RHEL5) is using a four-year-old kernel, so customers using RHEL5 did not benefit from Linux innovations
Ease of Deployment
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
Red Hat does not offer such a program
Red Hat does not adequately test with Oracle software
Integrated with Systems
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
Red Hat needs to partner with other hardware and software companies to offer full stack
Fully Tested and Ready for Data Center Deployments
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
Red Hat does not test with Oracle Database and Oracle Applications
Complete Solution with a Single Point of Contact for Support
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
Need to deal with numerous vendors for the solution and for support

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