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

From: Robert Fazio <rfazio_at_home.com.nospam>
Date: Tue, 14 Aug 2001 00:22:00 GMT
Message-ID: <Ia_d7.100647$EP6.25625124@news1.rdc2.pa.home.com>

Darcy,

I happen to agree with Geoff. I think that the problem is a lack of experience with Oracle and not a problem with Oracle. It's hard to setup on any system without a knowledge of how it works. If you have experience with DB2, which expect is the case, that may be why you got it working more easily. Oracle has been very strong in the Linux environment and is being used at many sites. There are always issues with Linux when it comes to having all of the right libraries and versions installed. Just make sure you Read the Manual.

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Robert Fazio
Senior Technical Analyst
dbabob_at_yahoo.com

"Geoff Muldoon" <gmuldoonNoSpam_at_scu.edu.au> wrote in message
news:3b78578c.1848017_at_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 - 19:22:00 CDT