Re: Oracle On Compaq Server

Daniel Morgan wrote:

> We're talking Oracle here not MS Word. Do you really want your
> production database running on a platform where at least once a
> week you are instructed to apply a security patch and reboot?
>
> Maybe it is just me ... but I think a DBA that doesn't show the
> initiative to learn Linux (or some other *NIX flavour) is an
> endangered species.
>

some of us learned it back when you actually got the source code. some of us even helped write some of what got in the source code.;-)

what you need to do is use the best combination of hardware and software for whatever the situation you face is.;-)

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Bill "Shrek" Thater     ORACLE DBA
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