Re: native Oracle-port on Linux -- what would it take?

[joelga_at_pebble.ml.org (Joel Garry)]
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| With the top-end MP PC's, PC is a misnomer. I don't think parallel
| servers are a bad topic for this at all. Too bad the original post
| was such a troll.

the problem with PCs is that you still have to be very careful when building them because compared to traditional UNIX-server hardware they are still not very robust. I've had disks litterally burn up inside the cabinet because cooling is usually bad and my dual P6 needs about 3 new cooling fans per year.

the problems with PCs is usually shitty hardware.

but as far as performance is concerned there is nothing near the price ranges of PCs that gives you more bang for the buck. often I preprocess data on my workstation instead of the database machine, because the Intel running Linux is several times faster.

| Yeah, that business plan youse guys were talking about - try
| packaging linux servers with a few million of NC's. That oughta get
| Larry's attention.

do we know anyone who knows Larry personally and could give him a call and explain to him what Linux is and that there are some people who would really like to run Oracle on it? :-)

PS: I'd like to run Designer/2000 on Linux as well :-)

-Bjørn

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