Re: ORACLE on LINUX

Thornton Prime wrote:
>
> Bob Withers wrote:
> >
> > In article <359190A4.2FEC9A10_at_yoyoweb.com>, thornton_at_yoyoweb.com says...
> > [snip]
> >
> > > We have tried SCO and Unix SysV. Both were really poor performers
> > > compared to Linux or FreeBSD. We considered Solaris x86 also, but
> > > were told by our Oracle rep that there was no port for Solaris
> > > x86.
 

> > Solaris x86 v7.3 $1,475.00 <---------
>
> Maybe we will give Solaris x86 a second looksie. Thanks.

One of my comrades told me that we DID look at Oracle for Solaris x86, but that it was compiled in the Solaris "compatability format" -- so it is actually a cross platform Sparc-Intel binary for Solaris 2.6+

Does anyone out there have real experience with Oracle/Solaris x86?

Is it indeed compiled to Sun's cross-platform binary format? If so, are there any performance consequences. I can't see why there would be (other than a small start-up cost and maybe a small dynamic-library linking hit), but this was why "the powers that be" decided against Solaris x86 and Oracle.

thornton Received on Thu Jun 25 1998 - 00:00:00 CDT