I have a SOX requirement that all of our corporate software is licensed.
For a license "in name only," either the $120 Oracle or $350 Red Hat tier will suffice.
I don't see the need to waste any more than $120 on support that I largely don't use. My Oracle Linux licenses expired several years ago, and I don't see any point in renewing them.
I have had to use alternate Oracle CSI support to fix some of their own self-inflicted brain damage. Oracle managed to disable microcode updates in the UEKR4, killing spectre/meltdown remediation. They would not listen to me on the forums, and insisted that I file an SR, so I used a general corporate CSI to get that fixed (and it still took several months).
For a license "in name only," either the $120 Oracle or $350 Red Hat tier will suffice.
I don't see the need to waste any more than $120 on support that I largely don't use. My Oracle Linux licenses expired several years ago, and I don't see any point in renewing them.
I have had to use alternate Oracle CSI support to fix some of their own self-inflicted brain damage. Oracle managed to disable microcode updates in the UEKR4, killing spectre/meltdown remediation. They would not listen to me on the forums, and insisted that I file an SR, so I used a general corporate CSI to get that fixed (and it still took several months).