Re: Oracle On Linux -- Install Is Just Aweful !!!

The Oracle Store portion of their website does seem to allow one to purchase licenses and support for 8i Enterprise. They appear to offer the same support at other "PC" platforms, as they take the same amount of money.

For comparison, I have found IBM's install of DB2 on Linux quite easy. It uses a simple text mode install, with fewer special reqirements (other than the need to install pdksh). Of course there are some issues with specific distributions, and I believe that IBM has a specific fix/procedure for RH 6.1.

I was able to install, configure, and connect to a DB2 v6.1 server on Caldera OpenLinux 2.3 inside of 30 minutes. Oracle required significantly more effort.

On Sun, 05 Mar 2000 18:15:09 GMT, GC <assistant_madman_at_hotmail.com> wrote:

>Unless things have changed since I last looked, Oracle does not offer
>support for their db on linux. Since Oracle makes most of their money
>from support and production licensing (and who would license a
>production database if there is no support), their implementation on
>linux is pretty bad and will remain so until they chose to offer
>support. After that, it will get remarkably better during install and
>subsequent use.
>This may occur sooner rather than later as I believe SuSE is in the
>process of getting their distro certified by Oracle so it can be
>supported.
>Until then, there will be justified gnashing of teeth and swearing at
>Oracle (well, more so than already exists :)
>
>Cheers,
>GC
Received on Mon Mar 06 2000 - 10:35:55 CST