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

nsouto_at_optushome.com.au.nospam (Nuno Souto) wrote in message news:<3b7947f3.6710784_at_news>...

> Well, according to the recommendations of M$ in their NT
> administration courses, one should never, never mix applications in
> their servers. One box for SS, one box for BO. The logical
> conclusion is that ORACLE and BO in the same box are a complete no-no!

True but bad, because concept one server - one service can be rather expensive and NTs after all are mainly budget product.

> Yeah, quite true. M$ reps like to quote the "enterprise server"
> capabilities of NT, but their education dept teaches a slightly
> different story.

My opinion is that in MS - Linux contest is no bigger quality difference than between sendmail and exchange. Sendmail is the one ahead, of course.

> >To be honest, I had a plan to get Linux on my home test server (I have
> >Oracle on NT already there), but I've crashed Linux installation with
> >my partition reconfigurations before I had a chance to install Oracle.
>
> Get a copy of Partition Magic. Now! ;-)

Sad is that I've crashed that Linux with Partition Magic. :-) I really hate the four primary partition limit on PC. I needed another one for Oracle, so I had to convert Linux swap file to logical partition and Linux didn't survive this. I was not suprised. :-) I can repair it, but have no time. I want to meet that lazy man who invented a day with only 24 hours. :-)
I'm running alternately on adrenaline or caffeine for few weeks. I even fell asleep in my car last week and that's always a bad thing when you're sitting on driver's seat. Fortunately, I've been lucky, because 1975 - 2001 are pretty bad numbers to have on grave. :-) So I'll get Oracle on my home Linux (maybe Solaris 8) in future, when I'll have some time to spare.

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Dusan Bolek, Ing.
Oracle team leader