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Ouch. Yeah, that's exactly the kind of reason why our third-party vendor doesn't want to support them... their view is that while the software should work on any reasonably-current Linux platform, providing commercial support for more than two or three major distros is just too much hassle.
Eh, it could have been worse. At one point we had a client that said they were using RedHat, but they were actually using Oracle Linux. Our C/C++ guys had so much fun chasing down the segfaults
Ouch. Yeah, that's exactly the kind of reason why our third-party vendor doesn't want to support them... their view is that while the software should work on any reasonably-current Linux platform, providing commercial support for more than two or three major distros is just too much hassle.
One of our clients wanted it recently – I think because they have an existing enterprise license for it – but it turns out we can't support it because one of the third-party tools we depend on aren't willing to do so either. So it looks like we'll be sticking with Redhat...
So happily, that's one less piece of Oracle technology in our stack. Unfortunately, the others are somewhat harder to avoid...
Eh, it could have been worse. At one point we had a client that said they were using RedHat, but they were actually using Oracle Linux. Our C/C++ guys had so much fun chasing down the segfaults
Raise your hand if you're willingly using Oracle Linux. Willingly = not because that's what someone else decided your project should be using.
One of our clients wanted it recently – I think because they have an existing enterprise license for it – but it turns out we can't support it because one of the third-party tools we depend on aren't willing to do so either. So it looks like we'll be sticking with Redhat...
So happily, that's one less piece of Oracle technology in our stack. Unfortunately, the others are somewhat harder to avoid...
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