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

tip 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.
>
> thanks,
> - tip

Superious hardware, maybe - Superious OS - Errm, nope! Solaris on this Ultra1 has crashed
and ran out of memory more times than any of my Linux boxes have!

Now a Linux port to some big hardware, oh that's already done - Just need Oracle to run on
Linux on a SUN/whatever and your away :)

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