I learned a very important (but dumb) lesson today.. Fights with the bosses are never won. Even if I'm right!! We are building a linux box to use for Oracle and a production J2EE server.. Great!!! My dream come true (now I just need gentoo on my desktop!).. But of course, since the government is so f***ing stupid, they won't support or allow the use of any OS that is "free", but they will allow Red Hat since you have to pay $800/year for support. Even though it's EXACTLY the same OS. And what's worse yet, Red Hat only updates their software quarterly. So what happens when a major security hole is discovered? The Open Source community patches it and updates are avail within hours... But not with Red Hat... You have to wait for them to package it and release it 3 months later... And this is all Government data!!! Talk about idiots!!!
The other issue is that Oracle is only "certified" to run under either SUSE or Red Hat... So of course I run into problems with our DBA who wants someone to call if he has a problem.. I tried to explain to him that there are other sources of help other than just Oracle.. but he said no.. He only wants to go to Oracle for help with Oracle... They just don't understand the Open Source community/Great help system that is the Internet. Damn winblows brats!!
Posted by doug at December 11, 2003 03:38 PM