Re: oracle 10g and solaris 10

Andy Hassall <andy_at_andyh.co.uk> wrote:
> On Sat, 23 Apr 2005 13:18:44 +0300, Theophanis Kontogiannis <tkonto_at_aegean.gr>
> wrote:

>>Will 10g r2 support solaris 10?
> Look on http://www.oracle.com/technology/support/metalink/index.html

This says that 10g EE certification for Sol10 on x64 is "planned for r2" - does this mean that all features, esp. full grid support - that would be ASM and RAC together if I manage to follow the discussions here sufficiently so far, wouldn't it?

That would be great news for me because I had almost given up on fighting Linux/Intel.

Once again: I'm a sysadmin and not a DBA, so please excuse me while I'm getting used to the terminology.

• that's the basic, purely Ora related part, I'd be grateful if you also could find time for the rest ---

Reason for me asking: I'm feeling a heavy spin with this customer towards RHEL, which won't get me out of work - I can manage RHEL too - but rather I fear that it will put me into too much work:

Note before you read the rest: If you think that I am honest-to-god stupid and wrong here (other than "lololol Solaris sux Linux rulez u n00b"), please by any means tell me how and why, I want to sell good services to my customers.

I don't want to start a holy war here, but my spam filter is good enough that I can say that I think the Linux kernel and the software around it is mostly of inferior quality to the Solaris system, and with Solaris Release 10 it is slower (and, considering RHEL, more expensive) too. What's better in GNU is available for Solaris anyway.

The main reason people want to run Linux/Intel servers IMO is that they see that it runs on more (mostly crap) hardware that shouldn't be in servers anyway.

So I want to show them that there is no real reason to go to RHEL on crappo IA32 (worst case) or EM64T (the best case) hardware (the rationalisations were "but Linux is free" and "but Oracle won't certify RAC on Sol10/x64"), because I hate it when people I contract with shoot themselves in the foot, even if it means more hours I can sell.

lg, Bernd Received on Wed Apr 27 2005 - 03:37:29 CDT