[TriLUG] making a case for oracle9i on linux

[Ryan Leathers]

I know its not what you are asking for, but here is my 2 cents.

Over the past few months I have had experience putting Oracle9i/AS on
several big IBM SMP hosts running RHEL2.1.  I have been very
dissatisfied with the complexity of the installations.  The 9iAS on RHEL
is also way too fragile for my liking.  Performance is nice, but it
would be a tough sell to get me to do this again.  Its hard to find the
value in commercial products over open source when the vendor support is
awful, the installation is kludgey, and the documentation is wrong.    

On the other hand, I wouldn't be eager to run anything thats mission
critical on W2K either.  

On Fri, 2004-03-05 at 11:27, Sinner from the Prairy wrote:
> On Friday 05 March 2004 10:15 am, Tom Le wrote:
> > Hello,
> > I need help making a case for installing oracle9i on
> > linux (redhat AS) to microsoft-friendly upper
> > management.  Management was not convinced that running
> > oracle on linux was better than on w2k, even after I
> > showed them the benchmark test done by Roby Sherman
> > (http://www.interealm.com/technotes/roby/pentmark.html).
> >   I guess they are just afraid of changing from
> > windows to linux.  I am needing more convincing
> > evidence/arguments    for oracle on linux as against
> > oracle on w2k.  Please help me persuade management to
> > shut the doors to oracle on W2k!
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Tom
> 
> I believe that Oracle is not advertising anymore Oracle on Windows. And, IIRC, 
> Oracle is leaving Oracle-Win platform completely, as for Oracle means way too 
> much loss of money (too many support calls that eat the profits.)
> 
> So, Windows + Oracle is a legacy (or going-to-be legacy) platform.
> 
> Oracle and Red Hat have had a strong partnership for a while now. Wall Street 
> is a heavy user of O+RH combo.
> 
> If Wall Street trusts O+RH, why not you?
> 
> 
> Salut,
> Sinner
> -- 
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> Running on Mandrake Linux 9.2 - Kernel  2.4.22-10mdksmp  Linux User # 89976
-- 
Ryan Leathers <ryan.leathers at globalknowledge.com>
Global Knowledge
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