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

From: Niall Litchfield <n-litchfield_at_audit-commission.gov.uk>
Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2001 16:32:57 +0100
Message-ID: <3b7a962c$0$3758$ed9e5944@reading.news.pipex.net>

"Serge Rielau" <srielau_at_ca.ibm.com> wrote in message news:3B7A7AA4.2BD70DE8_at_ca.ibm.com...
> It is widely known that Oracle has a different approach to parallelism
(shard disk) than DB2
> UDB, Informix, Teradata (shared nothing). That doesn't make one clustered
and the others not.
> It's a differenet approach. That's all.

True. I don't know enough about DB2 but at the 9i PR Flim Flam in the UK Oracle were stating that DB2 on Mainframes ran shared disk and on other platforms it was shared nothing. Is this true and if so what are the reasons for the difference in approach.

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Niall Litchfield
Oracle DBA
Audit Commission UK

Received on Wed Aug 15 2001 - 10:32:57 CDT