Re: ORACLE on LINUX

fwiw - have you looked at Empress or Adabas? Both have been ported to Linux. I seem to recall Empress as being a db 'contender' back in the mid-80's, but it was out-marketed by the big boys.

Regards,
jh

Thornton Prime (thornton_at_yoyoweb.com) wrote:
: Joel Garry wrote:
: > There's nothing unusual about giving support only to paying customers -
: > even Linux providers do that.
 

: We actually do pay for Oracle on NT, and have asked several times
: for Oracle on Linux. Most of our cries fell on deaf ears. We got
: a few sympathetic whimperings from some salespeople, but it seems
: Larry wants to back NT and not Linux.
 

: > >We have a couple offices, both are heavily peppered with Linux.
: > >We have been looking for a good database server. We are happy
: > >with PostgreSQL, but realize its limitations and know that we
: > >will be running into them fairly soon. We would like to consider
: > >an Oracle purchase, but until they start getting off their NT ass
: > >and do a Linux port (which from what I hear may already be done
: > >... just held for marketing and support reasons) they won't make
: > >any sale here. We don't want to run NT or Solaris (and won't even
: > >consider SCO or most other Unicies).
: >
: > If you won't even consider Solaris or SCO, what makes you think Linux will
: > be better? Put the blame on Intel, where it belongs. And check out the
: > hacks for linux - those are SCO Oracle binaries. I doubt a real linux
: > port would be much different.
 

: We actually are considering Solaris, though we prefer Linux (for
: reasons I'll outline shortly). We are using Oracle on NT and are
: most unhappy with performance and stability when compared to
: PostgreSQL on Linux -- a "free" SQL server -- and PostgreSQL is
: not all that great.
 

: 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.
 

: I have heard of Oracle running on Linux using SCO binaries and
: iBCS, but since this is not supported by Oracle I would hate to
: invest money in several oracle installs only to find that things
: don't work quite right. A good Oracle port would be able to use
: raw partitions for data too, something I know
: Linux+iBCS+Oracle/SCO can't do.
 

: Most of our projects require independent database servers tied to
: application servers. We prefer using many workgroup-sized servers
: rather than one "big iron" database server shared by all. It has
: proven more cost effective and more flexible for the type of
: applications we do. If we do change our model, though, we will
: probably choose Solaris or "The Unix Formerly Known as Digital
: Unix."
 

: If you (or anyone) have any recommendations for a Unix that would
: run on relatively cheap PC hardware for which we could find a
: reasonably good workgroup DB server, I'd really be interested. As
: it is, it appears that we are going to invest some extra
: development time to make PostgreSQL work the way we need it too
: -- though I am hoping that there is a commercial Unix +
: commercial DB server out there that can accomplish what we need
: at a lower cost.
 

: We are currently looking at Interbase for Linux. It shows
: promise, but we haven't committed yet. I have heard swirling
: rumors of Sybase, Informix, and even DB2 for Linux so (unless
: Oracle commits to a Linux port) we probably are going to reserve
: judgement for 6 months or so.
 

: thornton Prime

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