Re: Oracle 9i on linux?

Howard J. Rogers wrote:
> "harry" <spammemothers_at_yahoo.co.uk> wrote in message
> news:Qo2hd.3057$up1.230_at_text.news.blueyonder.co.uk...
>> Sorry for being a bit thick but I'm a basically a complete newbie
>> to Linux &
>> need to get up & running pretty quickly.
>>
>> I been asked to setup a Linux box on a PC running Oracle 9i &
>> Weblogic
>> 8.1.
>>
>> The version of Linux I install is not that important as long as I
>> can get the 2 app's above working - that's where I've hit a brick
>> wall.
>>
>> I thought I'd find a Oracle & WL version say for FreeBSB or Redhat
>> & go with
>> that Linux version ah ha but -
>>
>> it looks like from Oracle's site I should download "Oracle9i
>> Database Release 2 Enterprise/Standard Edition for Linux
>> New (26-Mar-04)"
>>
>> but which version of linux is it for, freebsd, redhat etc...?
>
>
> FreeBSD is not Linux. It's another Unix clone, to put it at its
> simplest. And not one Oracle supports (or much of the rest of the
> world, to be blunt).
>
> Redhat is merely a distribution of Linux. There are lots of others,
> such as SuSE, Mandrake, Fedora, Gentoo, Slackware and Lord knows
> what else.
>
> Oracle only certifies its products for one or two Linux
> distributions (because otherwise it would be there till
> Christmas!). Specifically, it only certifies itself against Red Hat
> Advanced Server 2.1, RH Advanced Server 3 and (lately) SuSE
> Enterprise Server 9. Something called United Linux 1 got a mention
> once upon a time, but it fell off the face of the Earth shortly
> afterwards, so we don't tend to worry about that one.
>
>> Also from BEA's site -
>> http://commerce.bea.com/showproduct.jsp?family=WLP&major=8.1&minor=3
>> in the
>> drop down box, the only linux offering appears to be "Red Hat
>> Enterprise Linux (2.1, 3.0, Pentium) - so do I have to have "Red
>> Hat Enterprise Linux"?
>
> So BEA seem also to certify themselves against Red Hat 2.1, and
> 3... which kind of means if you want a certified platform for both,
> thems about your only choices. Least common denominators and all
> that jazz.
>

BEA Weblogic is also certified for SuSE SLES8, as is Oracle9i (and 10g). See:
http://e-docs.bea.com/platform/suppconfigs/configs81/81_over/overview.html

-- 
Jeroen