Is it possible to migrate Oracle SOA BPEL instances from one environment to another with history?

Red Hat Enterprise Linux or Oracle Enterprise Linux?

• I'm looking to dedicate a PowerEdge 2850 as an eCommerce web server and have been back and forth between which two operating systems I want to run it on. Support is not an issue since this is a SOHO network environment and I'm very comfortable with linux, compiling, etc. I was originally going to install RHEL 6.2 as I've been familiar with Red Hat in the past. But I also had a look at Oracles Linux, and its 6.2 version looks pretty impressive. http://www.oracle.com/us/technologies/linux/competitive-335546.html You get your management tools right away, claims of higher performance (is this just within the Oracle stack or the actual unbreakable kernel itself?) and dual kernels (one that can update itself without rebooting). The latter being the most impressive to me, real time updates without the need of compiling. I've heard mixed reviews, but the bad reviews against Oracle Linux seem to be more about disgruntled Red Hat users feeling threatened by Oracle and how they approached their Linux OS. Is Oracle Linux even worth a LAMP installation, or shall I give Oracle DB a go for Magento eCommerce framework? A lot of questions about this OS, not too many answers (other than Oracles brilliant marketing team).

• Answer:

  Oracle is a fork of the Red Hat distro. They have some nice tools, but remember, Larry does very little for free just because he is a nice guy. The fact is he wants to lock you in, with his own customized OS Unless you love giving money to Larry, stay with Red Hat