The Real Truth About Oracle's 'New' Kernel

An anonymous reader writes "Yesterday at OpenWorld, Oracle announced a 'new' Enterprise kernel for its so-called Unbreakable Linux. What's the real truth? The company is simply sticking a 2.6.32-based kernel on top of its re-branded Red Hat Enterprise Linux clone and trying to spin it as a new and innovative development."

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Uhh, isn't this what Oracle customers pay for?

[NevarMore]

Oracle is simply offering a newer kernel than Red Hat and fine-tuning it for Oracle's own software.

This could be glossing over quite a bit of useful work for Oracles customers. "Fine tuning" could be anything from tweaking some compiler settings to actually patching things in the kernel. Its hardly a trivial task given the size and complexity that most Oracle customers bring.

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Unbreakable Linux?

[Sonny Yatsen]

Whenever a company starts calling their product unbreakable or indestructible or unhackable or whatever, I start thinking Titanic.