RE: Linux taking over at Oracle

From: Orr, Steve <sorr_at_rightnow.com>
Date: Fri, 01 Feb 2002 08:07:31 -0800
Message-ID: <F001.004034C7.20020201075536@fatcity.com>

On a contrarian note with all the Larry hype aside... Linux is much more that just a fad. In a relatively short time it has already put a very significant dent in MS server software sales and I'm sure it's going to affect Sun/HP regardless of Oracle's IT infrastructure strategies. Linux/Intel is a proven production quality platform and having worked with Linux/Oracle servers for over a year now I conclude that the Linux "revolution" is not going away like just another fad. In fact, it's just getting started. BTW, I'm getting ready to buy a ReplayTV unit and guess what it runs on? ... LINUX!!!

If you want to get a good idea of what folks are doing with Oracle on Linux just join the suse-oracle_at_suse.com list or go to http://www.suse.com/en/support/oracle/index.html ... etc.

I think the point behind all this is that, large, complex servers can be a support challenge with capacity planning for "always on," 24x7, unlimited future scalability needs.

Rather than racking our brains we should be RAC'ing our servers.

Steve Orr,
Montana Revolutionary

-----Original Message-----
Sent: Friday, February 01, 2002 5:40 AM
To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L

it's not just Oracle, this tends to be a trend in all businesses. Just as there are fads in clothing (shorter hemlines, longer hemlines etc), there seem to be fads in the "right" way to manage your computer systems.

I've seen the cycle turn a number of times "centralize all software and systems, one data center to serve them all, standards cross-company" then suddenly it's "decentralize, one big center makes no sense, we don't get the things we need fast enough from them"

• Jonathan Gennick <jonathan_at_gennick.com> wrote:
  > Interesting news. Makes me wonder though. Remember when
  > Oracle moved to support client-server computing? Now Larry
  > derides client-server and distributed computing saying
  > that it's cheaper to have just one big system. How many
  > times have you heard Larry talk about how Oracle's
  > consolidated their email servers? Makes me wonder whether
  > five years down the road Larry will be telling us that it's
  > "silly to run a database on 50 cheap boxes" because it's
  > much easier to administer one big one.
  >
  > Best regards,
  >
  > Jonathan Gennick
  > mailto:jonathan_at_gennick.com * 906.387.1698
  > http://Gennick.com * http://MichiganWaterfalls.com *
  > http://ValleySpur.com
  >
  > Thursday, January 31, 2002, 2:36:21 PM, you wrote:
  > AMG0> Ellison says Oracle's 'whole business' to run on Linux
  >
  > AMG0> The Oracle chairman and CEO said the company will replace three
  > Unix
  > AMG0> servers
  > AMG0> that run the bulk of its business applications with a cluster
  > of Intel
  > AMG0> Corp.
  > AMG0> servers running Linux.
  >
  > AMG0>
  >
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