Additional Information Regarding Red Hat Announcement, ``Red Hat GFS Now Supported by Oracle,...

RALEIGH, N.C. -- The current supported configuration of Oracle Real Application Clusters (RAC) and Red Hat GFS is specifically for Oracle9i RAC version 9.2, Red Hat GFS 6.0 and Red Hat Enterprise Linux v. 3 for 32-bit architectures.

More details about this supported configuration can

Currently, Red Hat GFS is not supported by Oracle with Oracle Database 10g, or in Oracle Grid Solutions for Intel Itanium and Intel EM64T architectures.

For more information on Red Hat GFS, visit http://www.redhat.com or call 866-2-REDHAT.

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