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

Tom Greer Jr writes:
> When you buy Oracle for DEC Unix, for example, Oracle requires that you
> run the DBMS on only Oracle-approved DEC hardware. No Alpha clones, no
> third party net cards, nothing. If you don't they won't support it.
 

> The reason for _that_ is, they claim they hand-tune parts of the Oracle
> software to the specific drivers you are running, and ship you that
> hand-tuned version.

For Linux, they could ship you Oracle with a hand-tuned *kernel*.

> They cannot hand-tune Oracle for maximum performance on every combination
> of every piece of Linux-supported hardware.

So? You say above that they can't hand-tune Oracle for every piece of DEC supported hardware. What's the difference?

> So, chances are, even if they shipped Oracle for Linux, it wouldn't
> perform as well as the other versions (for other platforms where they
> have strict hardware requirements).

What keeps them from having strict hardware requirements for Linux?

It seems to me that Linux offers Oracle an opportunity to considerably simplify support, by shipping OraLinux complete with a tuned, stable kernel and a set of approved drivers.

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