Re: Oracle for Linux

Why should anyone want oracle on Linux ?

If oracle with it's huge limitations
(because its a big company and therefore slow) can't offer stable products (Developer 2000 1.3.1 on Solaris, where we see that it *is* already bugfixed has 3 Binaries that do not run (core-dump) or are not useable because (gasp) icons are not compiled in) and where support is even worse ('Yes it will be fixed in the next version. When this is out ? Oh, I dont know'), this seems to me like they get another Microsoft as we see that Databases are as big as a market as operating systems.

As we saw, the commercial world with the 'big guys', lousy software and support, but good marketing just doesn't mix with the linux world where the software is good and transparent. What these companies sell is not the product, they sell the warm and fuzzy feeling that someone *big* is behind the customer when he encounters a problem that his sysadmin would handle in 10 min (with the appropriate documentation adn without the stupidity programmed into the commercial products), but instead he calls oracle and it takes a month - but just because the hotline doesn't have a clue and he gets it out by trying himself or by asking in comp.databases.oracle.

Therefor, there never will be oracle on linux!

And I hope it never will.

Cheers,
Walter

walter.zimmer_at_rz.uni-ulm.de
Forms 4.5 developer Received on Sun Mar 23 1997 - 00:00:00 CST