If you squint...
that just looks like a bunch of commodity E5 x86 servers interconnected in a rack with open source software. It's not though, it is an engineered system.
Database giant Oracle is trying to keep the myriad NoSQL and alternative data stores and big data munchers like Hadoop at bay by commercializing and integrating a bunch of proprietary and open source software onto preconfigured x86-based servers that it sells in appliance fashion. Oracle has not talked about how well or poorly …
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Yes, that is not uncommon. RHEL and Oracle are in a spat right now. Oracle thinks its fine to poach RHEL maintenance. RHEL thinks otherwise. RHEL has intentionally been combining patches into one superpatch to make it more difficult for OEL to follow their changes and just apply them to OEL. By the time that OEL catches up with the change log, it is usually a massive group of changes in each patch.