If you are going to be putting linux outside a firewall, better upgrade a
whole bunch. 5.1 has more holes than swiss cheeze. You'll be root-kitted
within minutes.
At 07:10 AM 10/5/00 -0800, you wrote:
>Steve,
>
> I've had Oracle 8.0.5 on a Red Hat 5.1 Linux box for over a year with no
>problems. The OS I actually got from Borders as I bought a Red Hat book for
>$35. The Oracle software was acquired by my boss on a lark to see if this
had
>any potential. We're thinking of putting one outside the firewall for
external
>needs. It may give us a way around Oracle's Power Unit pricing by using a
lower
>end single processor Intel 133 box especially since there will be less than
>200MB of data, mostly queries & few insert/update actions.
>
>Dick Goulet
>
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>Author: "Steve McClure" <steve_at_pactr.com>
>Date: 10/4/00 12:50 PM
>
>I have been asked to put together a quote for a UNIX box that will run an
>Oracle Database. The database is relatively small and will not have lots of
>HW requirements. I though Linux was something to look into, due to the low
>cost of the OS. In looking into Redhat Linux I saw they had a 'special'
>enterprise edition for Oracle. Well upon calling them they said their
>standard version had some issues with Oracle, and they had altered their
>kernel to suit Oracles needs. Does this mean they went in a configured some
>options within the kernel? Or is this a different kernel? The tech I spoke
>to was not able to say.
>
>Bottom line is this...Linux off the shelf is under $100. The special
>enterprise edition runs $2500.
>
>All I am doing is building the box, and installing Oracle.
>
>Thanks for any insight you might send my way.
>Steve McClure
>
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