Re: Oracle 9i AS on Linux

He is probably referring to Red Hat Advanced Server Developer's Edition. For $60 you can download it for developement/testing/qa purposes:

https://www.redhat.com/software/advancedserver/developer/

You might want to ask Red Hat if this is suitable for your purpose.

Roger Atkinson <roger.atkinson_at_cubic.com> wrote in message news:<3E443001.3F5376BB_at_cubic.com>...
> Philippe wrote:
> >
> > On 07 Feb 2003 10:15:06 GMT, Sander Goudswaard <sander_at_example.com>
> > wrote:
> >
> > >
> > >Currently the supported platforms include RedHat Advanced Server 2.1 and
> > >SuSE SLES 7.
> > >
> > >Sander
> >
> > btw can be bought quite cheap, for testing purposes, i thought it was
> > 60 dollar ?
> >
>
> Sorry Phillipe, I think your confused. SuSE Enterprise Linux lists for
> $750US and the last time I looked at RH Advanced Server it was about
> $2500US. This is why I need to "prove the concept". They won't spend
> this kind of money with out evidence it's going to succeed in *our*
> environment with *our* applications. If you or anyone else will give me
> a complete refund of the purchased price if the Local Oracle DBA's don't
> like it, then I'll order a copy today! If not, then I don't want to go
> there and have to haggle with either Red Hat or SuSE once they have my
> money! And I do mean my money since I'm not going to get a dime from my
> company yet!
>
> However, if it does work, I know I'm going to need at least two copies
> of the OS since we plan to put 9iAS on one machine, and upgrade the back
> end Databases to 9i as well and it will all be under Vendor support when
> we go into production. For performance and flexibility, two machines
> will be used. All I need to get working is the 9i AS on what I have.
>
> So far, what I'm trying to do looks impossible so I'll probably just
> drop it and announce failure to the Development group here. Oh well, I
> gave it my best! I'll have to admit it was a great learning experience,
> however.
>
> Thanks, Roger A.
>
>
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Received on Sun Feb 09 2003 - 16:09:41 CST