RE: Oracle's relationships with expert DBAs (and the rest of us mere mortals)

All,

From another Apps-specific list I know of a recent trend where ORACLE APPS customers are moving from "UNIX" to "Linux". Issues such as SAN compatibility, Upgrade of Linux version (RHAS 2.1 to 3.0 in this case: RH will support only a fresh install - ct wants a 2.1 to 3.0 upgrade and the SAN vendor does not support RH 4), tussles between SysAdmins and DBAs over patches and versions, etc. are still an issue. Many are considering RAC with Oracle Apps where it makes sense (??) to "scale out" (using RAC) instead of "scale up" (using Big(ger) Iron). Not sure how this is going to pan out as we are just beginning to see this trend...

I suppose that such questions and issues will settle down over time, but this list is right in saying that the human cost of maintenance (and associated downtime when something goes wrong) will far outweigh the cost savings for an OS / lesser hardware purchase in the long run....

John Kanagaraj

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Subject: Re: Oracle's relationships with expert DBAs (and the rest of us mere mortals)

• Niall Litchfield <niall.litchfield_at_gmail.com> wrote:
  > Now I agree that linux is a far too volatile base, but compared to
  > apps? - come on. So long as you don't do legal patches, security
  > patches and rollups you are probably in the same ball park.
  >
  > Niall Litchfield
  

I got into this discussion because allegedly there's an APPS shop that ditched their Sun/Solaris for PC/Linux platform.

No doubt -- ORACLE APPS is an ugly beast but was/is there an alternative?
Linux on the other hand is not only butt-ugly BUT offers NO benefit whatsoever for an APPS shop. That was my point.

I still don't see any value in going Linux even for a shop on a tight budget -- this is just a trend. They shoot themselves in the foot by doing so and will be paying the price in the next 4 years.

Again ... time will tell.

• Vitaliy -- http://www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l

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