[TriLUG] To 64 or 32 that is the question

[Ron Joffe]

On Thursday 03 March 2005 17:47, James Brigman wrote:
> Do 64 bit Oracle binaries even exist for Linux? When I was surveying the
> field (about 5 months ago) they did not exist - you had to go 32 bit on
> RHEL 3.  This was something that gave us pause, since 64 bit binaries
> for Oracle/Solaris ARE available. - JKB
>

Oracle 10.1.3 s available for AMD64/Intel64 on Linux. (side note, I have been 
using 64 bit oracle on Alphas for something like 7 years, so intel/amd is 
just now catching up :) )



> On Thu, 2005-03-03 at 15:03 -0500, Ron Joffe wrote:
> > Does anyone have any experience, either positive of negative, on
> > utilizing an Intel Xeon processor based machine in either 32 or 64 bit
> > mode?
> >
> > This of course is under Linux. The machine in question will be used for
> > and Oracle DB and file/print functionality.
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Ron