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

From: Uwe Bonnes <bon_at_elektron.ikp.physik.th-darmstadt.de>
Date: 1997/12/21
Message-ID: <67k4dc1r@igel.not.available>#1/1

In comp.os.linux.development.apps tip <tip_at_blahblah.com> wrote:
: there is NO WAY the pc hardware end of linux would be able to handle running
: oracle in any decent manner. plus its tweaking is rather limited compared to
: solaris and hpux. i have run oracle on both suns and hp boxes - there's just
: no way linux is ready (yet) for oracle.

: i currently run oracle 7.2.3 on hp9000/s800/k210's running hpux 10.10 with a
: gig of memory each. that's alright for running oracle.

: but imagine a pc with linux and a motherboard limitation of 128M, a 200Mhz
: processor... i don't think so...

: linux is good for being a workstation, or a small server - but the heavy
: duty shit - better leave it to superior hardware and os's.

Linux runs on ALPHA,MacLinux, Mips, ...
Don't think on I86 only.

Bye

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Uwe Bonnes                bon_at_elektron.ikp.physik.tu-darmstadt.de

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Received on Sun Dec 21 1997 - 00:00:00 CST