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Of what?
Pete Sharman wrote:
> More testing? :)
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> Pete
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> "Controlling developers is like herding cats."
> Kevin Loney, Oracle DBA Handbook
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> "Oh no, it's not. It's much harder than that!"
> Bruce Pihlamae, long-term Oracle DBA
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: oracle-l-bounce_at_freelists.org [mailto:oracle-l-bounce_at_freelists.org] On Behalf Of John Flack
> Sent: Saturday, 20 March 2004 12:54 AM
> To: oracle-l_at_freelists.org
> Subject: Hardware / OS recommendation
>
> We are currently running 8.1.7 databases on a 4 year old Dell Pentium
> machine, under SCO UnixWare. This is the last supported version of
> Oracle under UnixWare, and since the hardware is getting old in internet
> years, we're thinking of getting new hardware running a supported OS for
> Oracle 9i R2 or 10g. I'm the official DBA, but my system administrator
> has been wearing an Asst. DBA hat doing much of the day to day work.
>
> The SA wants to get a low-end Sun SPARC machine running Solaris, since
> the price of these has come down to around the same price as the sort of
> high end Intel or AMD machine that we would normally use as a server. I
> would normally vote for the Intel/AMD solution running Red Hat or SUSE
> Linux, since we already run several of those. And maybe there are some
> low-end machines from HP or IBM (or someone else) that we should
> consider.
>
> One thing I'd definitely like is an OS that Oracle will support for a
> long time. We started on old SCO Unix, moved to SCO Openserver when
> Oracle stopped supporting it, moved to UnixWare when Oracle stopped
> supporting Openserver, and now have to move again. Oracle is Oracle,
> and we've never had much of a problem with the database stuff - an
> export and an import, and we've been good to go. But the shell scripts,
> COBOL and C programs have required tweaking every time we moved.
> Nothing major, but just enough to have to field user complaints for
> weeks after each move, despite testing.
>
> Suggestions, anyone?
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