Oracle doesn't want to give RH any more power
than they aleady have. They'd rather 'bless'
a lower visibility distro, and hold out on RH
until RH give them something.

And also, let me know if you use it. I'd currently
using 8i on a few RH 6.x boxen.

Once thing that would be GREAT would be if Oracle got
together with SGI. I'm running XFS based RH 7.1
and it is very solid. SGI has an Asynch IO patch
that DB2 uses, which allows a 30% performance boost.
I'm sure Oracle could also use it since they prefer to
do Asynch IO on ther systems, bu they need to 'enable'
it.