Vishwa Hassan wrote:
> 
> We are currently considering moving to Intel based platforms (from
> SUN/Solaris) running one of the distributions of Linix.  This email is to
> solicit suggestions on the kind of platform and the distribution.
[snip]

SuSE has been very active with Oracle:

http://www.suse.com/us/solutions/proserv/index.html

And they have clustering ability
 
Regards,

Armand