Oracle offers half-price support for Red Hat Linux We all saw this one coming, and it really make 100% sense, and anyone in the enterprise database market knows why too. Why is this good news? It makes life simpler for the IT guys when trouble shooting problems that occur on their large backend systems.
The old scenario used to play out like this. Call the software vendor, get through to support then find out that the problem is related to the OS. Now call the OS company and suggest that there might be a problem. Righhtt… Call any OS company and receive support lately? That call is automatically punted back the software company, no questions asked.
Image having to make just 1 call, and receive OS, DB, and Application support in 1 call. This seems almost too good to be true. It could be. I do believe this is a win-win situation for everyone, even the end user.
