Re: Oracle for Linux

Atif Ahmad Khan (aak2_at_Ra.MsState.Edu) wrote:
: Bram Schiltmans <bmschilt_at_worldaccess.nl> writes:
:
: >I know some people (including someone at ORACLE) who tried to run the
: >SCO version on LINUX. And they weren't all that negative about it. So
: >you could give that a try. Not sure how well it will work though.
:
: Its a hack. And an ugly one at that. The cookbook is for an older release
: of Oracle, not sure if it would work for the newer one. This makes it
: even more uglier. Getting the SCO binariess needed for this cookbook is

I wouldnot consider the iBCS module a hack, and certainly not ugly! The cookbook or any other means to get Oracle running under Linux is sort of a hack (I install under SCO link Oracle and so on then I copy the whole Oracle tree to Linux, of course I need access to a SCO machine).

: not easy either. I haven't tried SCO. From what I hear its really ugly.

Correct, I've used it a few years ago!

: Bringing in binaries from an ugly OS would make this whole thing super-ugly :)

What's better have a not so nice solution or not to have Oracle running at all? And it runs just fine, even on SMP hardware!

:
: It seems it would easier and cleaner and nicer if Oracle would compile Oracle
: for Linux. Everybody would live happily ever after :)

Sure but who will get Oracle in doing this!

:
: Atif Khan
: aak2_at_ra.msstate.edu

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