Thread: Linux vendors

So, what do you have that other Linux vendors don't?

We've a feature called premium backporting. So, imagine that this October I, you have a project to start that is meant to end on December 31. In these three months, you do all kinds of testing. Two months later, after a hard-core testing phase, you find a bug that's affeCting the entire stack. What are the options you're left with now to fix the problem?

Traditional Linux vendors will say upgrade to the latest version of that package and you will inherit whatever has been changed in that package-enhancements, new features, other bug fixes ... whatever. Oracle customers said this is not acceptable. They don't want any 'delta' between fixing their problem and other stuff, because it increases the risk. They want that one bug to be fixed in that specific version of the package that they are using.

What Oracle says is, if you want to have that level of support, we offer it. It's never been offered ever before in the enterprise Linux space. If someone can do it, it's good. But it required a Significant amount of resources from the engineering point of vie~. This is what our customers are saying they need from Linux. A little bit more support to promote that adoption. Okay, we do it, so now you can adopt Linux!