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What is Oracle Linux?
Oracle Linux, which is application binary compatible with Red Hat Enterprise Linux, is free to download, use, and share. There is no license cost, no need for a contract, and no usage audits. 24/7 enterprise-grade support is available for business critical environments. A single support offering includes virtualization, management, HA, and cloud native computing tools such as Kubernetes and Kata Containers, along with the Linux operating system. The vendor states that as the only Linux distribution with zero-downtime automated patching for kernel, hypervisor, and critical user-space libraries, Oracle Linux improves performance of all workloads and is optimized–out of the box–for Oracle software. Autonomous Linux, a self-patching, self-tuning, high-performance implementation of Oracle Linux is available on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure.
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- Supported: Zero-downtime automated patching for kernel, hypervisor, and critical user-space libraries
- Supported: Optimized–out of the box–for Oracle software
- Supported: A single support offering includes Linux, virtualization, management, HA, and cloud native computing tools
- Supported: Available on premises, in the cloud, and as Autonomous Linux
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It is being used within the organization by different user groups and students. I am also one of the active users using it. It is one of the secure OS and new technology that has been introduced to the new students which address the current security issues. Earlier on open source, OS was used but due to the security issues, we had to switch to Oracle Linux.
- Support cost.
- Runs well on Oracle Database.
- Kernel Security.
- It only works with Oracle Products.
- Documentation
- Less community
- Oracle hardware cost.
- Support cost.
- Use of OVM.
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)
To run the Oracle database server smoothly and to get better support from the community. The OS comes with an already pre-configured database system which is easier and more efficient for the user and IT members who are familiar with the Oracle Products. Support cost is much cheaper than the other product.
Our organization needs 24/7 support for staff and students which requires a highly available system for the offered services. Oracle Linux does the best in regards to the support and to have great troubleshooting guides and access and support in case of any issues to the OS and the services.
No
It was at the time during the installation which I could not co-figure and got different errors, then I contacted the support team to fix the issue. It was immediate access to the support portal and they resolved my issue during the same time in 30 minutes. Thank you for that.
50
Running Oracle databases.
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- Databases
- Web Services
- 24 hr support
- Support
- Databases
- Better community support.
- New features
- Security updates
No
- Price
- Product Features
- Product Usability
The price and the customer support were important having the pre-build in features that made us the IT staff not go through all the preliminary steps to configure without any hassle. Having 24/7 hr support team in place to have highly available services leads towards the decision.
In that case, I will evaluate all the product features and services including the community support groups. Based on the services used in my organization includes web services databases. File servers etc. That will allow me to decide on the selection process in an easier way based on the evaluation mentioned above.
July 30, 2021
Hemanth Nalluri
Using OEL has been always a good choice. Redhat's kernel being the base, it was always easier to convince the clients to use OEL. OEL has been the bread and butter for us. We use it in and out every day at our company in all the Development machines. Also, we recommend the use of Oracle Linux across all the implementations that we do in the Oracle CAGBU Space. Not just that, we recommend the use of Oracle Linux to our customers who use our own CRM Based product. Oracle's unique OCFS2 has always been an add-on benefit to us as it allows you to store application binary files, data files, and databases on devices on shared storage. All nodes in a cluster have concurrent read and write access to the file system. This is much needed for the cluster-based workloads which is very much useful in any of the industries (for us it's Telco).
On a high level,
On a high level,
- Oracle Linux is trusted in high-volume, transactional, mission-critical production IT environments.
- Oracle’s Linux support is relied upon for applications that require continuous or near-continuous availability.
- Application performance in general was enhanced as a result of the migration to Oracle Linux from RHEL.
- Automation of processes that were previously done manually resulted in significant reductions in staff time devoted to these functions.
- Ease of using
- Easy to maintenance
- Network management
- Ease of maintenance - In return less overhead on the IT Team.
As we majorly deal with Oracle stack, and as all of them are not supported by Ubuntu, we had a good chance to explore the in & out of oracel linux.
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Ubuntu, RedHat Linux
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