Oracle supported flavours of linux

My company is planning to shift all it's oracle operations on to
linux. We do not know which distributions of linux oracle
supports. we work in products like oracle database, jserver, ias
etc. Can you please suggest the distribution of linux we can go
for.
Thanx in advance,

It seems to me as though they all will work but none will
install perfectly cleanly. Each distribution is addressed in
this forum in one way, shape or form. The baseline supported by
Oracle is SuSe but folks in this forum have successfully
installed on Red Hat and Mandrake as well as others. Whichever
distribution you choose do a search in this forum on the
distribution name and browse the posts that are returned. Some
will sound like the end of the world and others have solutions
to common problems.

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