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Home -> Community -> Usenet -> c.d.o.misc -> Re: Installing ORACLE WG Server for SCO under Linux
Francisco C P de Almeida <piragibe_at_esquadro.com.br> wrote:
: You must install it "by hand", Tim: write a script that uncompresses and
: copies all the distribution files to disk (the uncompress utility is in the
: ORAINST directory); then, delete the ones you don't need. I must warn you
: that neither you will have PL/SQL (the STANDARD PACKAGE simply does not get
: compiled; so, you can't create PL/SQL units) running on your server nor
: SQL*Net will be installed. This makes the server almost unusable,
: unfortunately.
well, look what this webpage says:
http://www.cse.psu.edu/~groenvel/ftp/linux-oracle2.txt
excerpts:
----------------------------------------------------------------------->+++ access to database
All Oracle tools (SQL*Plus, SQL*DBA, exp, imp, sqlldr) work.
Additionally I tested access from an OS/2 and Windows client via SQL*Net TCP/IP V1. On the PC side I used Personal Oracle V7.1.4.1.0. I used SQL*Plus for Windows (directly using SQL*Net DLL's) and a Visual Basic application, that accesses the database via ODBC. Both work fine.
[...]
+++ conclusion
SCO Oracle runs absolutely stable (for 3 weeks) and reasonable fast on Linux. [...]
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Sixt (the largest German car-rental company) uses Linux exclusively for their information systems. (a large, 600+ hosts car reservation database system, intranet, mailing system, etc). Reportedly they are very happy with their choice.
and i've heard that Mercedes Benz has switched to Linux servers too, but i dont know details.
but since Oracle goes extra pain to tell all the marketing staff that they do NOT support Linux (i've been on a show which started with this ...), thus i would rather recommend one of the growing number of native SQL servers for Linux.
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