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

"Pete Sharman" <peter.sharman_at_oracle.com> wrote in message news:Hvag7.138$8x6.29706_at_inet16.us.oracle.com...
> Dino
>
> I think Larry actually mentioned in his OpenWorld speech something about
> making use of RAC to cluster lots of small boxes. I think this is
something
> you're going to see more of from any vendor who works on Linux, not just
> Oracle, and it only makes sense now that clustering has been available
with
> Linux for some time. I don't think there's a great deal of point in
working
> on porting something which might have only a small uptake because of the
> applicable environment size.

This approach does have some attractions. Why buy a 32 processor sun box when you can cluster 8 4 processor intel boxes? I must admit i remain suspicious about what performance figures you'd get out of this solution though.

>
> We've had people using Sun boxes and HP boxes because the clustering has
> been available for them for quite some time. It will be interesting to
see
> how many of those clients move to Linux clusters. From my personal
> perspective (of course I've been wrong before and I could be again!), I
> don't think there's going to be a great rush to do this (if you've already
> got something working well, why change it?). But Linux clusters may make
a
> lot of sense to those sites that have a web presence today and who want to
> be up and running 24 hours a day.

Looks a good analysis to me.

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Niall Litchfield
Oracle DBA
Audit Commission UK