Re: Why doesn't Oracle care about Linux as IBM does?

From: Geoff Muldoon <gmuldoonNoSpam_at_scu.edu.au>
Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2001 22:47:08 GMT
Message-ID: <3b78578c.1848017@nntp.scu.edu.au>

Darcy <benoit_at_no.spam.please> wrote:

>This is the state the company was in when I started: They had tried
>on-and-off for about 3 weeks to get Oracle working - they couldn't do it.
>I worked for about 4 hours and had DB2 up and running. It took me another
>2 weeks to get Oracle working.
>
>then we switched up to RedHat 7.0.
>
>DB2 installed again in all of about 25 minutes.
>Oracle wouldn't work at all.

Darcy,

Don't know what you did wrong, but:

My experiences:
Oracle 8.0.4 on Windoze NT4 Server - 20 minutes Oracle 8.0.5 on Red Hat 6.x - about an hour (haven't gone to 7.0 yet, but can't foresee the level of problems you indicate)
Oracle 8.1.6 on Tru64 - about 3 hours

Geoff M Received on Mon Aug 13 2001 - 17:47:08 CDT