Oracle Is Indeed Shipping Enterprise Linux 5.2 and Unbreakable Linux Support

Published: July 15, 2008

by Timothy Prickett Morgan

As I suspected last week when I told you that the CentOS project had updated its Linux distribution, a clone of Red Hat Enterprise Linux, to the 5.2 release, Oracle has been shipping its implementation, called Oracle Enterprise Linux 5.2, too.

Just like I thought might be the case, the company's support pages, which only showed Oracle Enterprise Linux supporting the 5.0 and 5.1 releases on X86 and X64 servers, were wrong. According to Sergio Leunissen, senior director of Linux business solutions at Oracle, the support has been out for the 5.2 release and the page was not updated. In fact, says Leunissen, Oracle shipped the 5.2 update online on June 1 and on DVDs and CDs on June 10.

And, once again, Oracle is reminding me that the product name is Oracle Enterprise Linux and that the Unbreakable Linux name only refers to the support service for Oracle, RHEL, and presumably CentOS instances if customers want to shift from Red Hat Satellite support or CentOS support to get their code patched and updated by Oracle instead. I can't seem to get my brain wrapped around the idea that Oracle can use the Enterprise Linux name in a product. There ought to be a law. And if Red Hat was calling its clone of a relational database--if it decided to have one--Red Hat 11g, we'd have lawyers all over the trademark and copyright issues relating to the name. But I digress. And I am tempted to keep calling the product and the service Unbreakable Linux, as my brain seems keen on doing anyway so I can keep it straight.

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