Does Oracle intend to limit its list of configurations to include only a few options?
Oracle is offering these configurations as recommendations and best practices. Along with our partners, we intend to publish a variety of configurations with different hardware and software combinations, over time. Our intent is to offer well-tested choices to our users and channel partners. This by no means implies that other custom configurations deployed by end-users will not be supported. We will still continue to offer support for all Oracle products certified on Linux regardless of whether someone deployed them using an Oracle Validated Configuration or not.