Re: Oracle released ( finally ) 10.2 on solaris 10 x86 ( 32 bit )

hpuxrac wrote:
> They have had the 64 bit version ( which requires an AMD cpu ) out for
> a while but looks like they just released the 32 bit version yesterday.
>
> So now you should be able to run Oracle 10.2 on solaris 10 x86 on any (
> well any modern ) intel cpu in 32 bit mode.
>
> I guess this is maybe the final port of 10.2 to other platforms? Or is
> oracle still working on delivering anything else?
>
> Oracle's history of supporting the x86 sun operating systems has been
> pretty erratic, more of a now you see it now you don't type of thing.
> But the changes we have seen in the last year with oracle on solaris
> now being the preferred development environment and the changes to the
> multi core pricing strategies appear to be getting traction with
> oracle's support of three different solaris operating system flavors (
> sparc, x86 64 bit, and now x86 32 bit ).
>
> For a while I was thinking that we would be seeing an INSTANCE_TYPE =
> LINUX32/LINUX64 with oracle providing the operating system but now
> maybe we will be seeing INSTANCE_TYPE=SOL10x86_32/SOL10x86_64???
>
> Since Solaris is moving so strongly to open source, and if oracle
> decides they want to provide the os for customers, what makes more
> sense ... delivering a proven enterprise level unix os or going the
> linux direction?
>
> Who knows maybe both directions at once?

Now that's cool - I just downloaded me Sol10_x86 U2 to play with and was a bit upset that there's no 32-bit Oracle for it (well, not a big problem getting an AMD64 or Intel EM64T CPU these days, but I don't like to upgrade unless I really have to.) Now there is, so my playground just added another toy and I don't have to upgrade for a little while. :)

Personally, I would go with Solaris - Linux won't be anywhere near in features, stability and scalability for the next few years even with all effort put into it, by which time Solaris will move even further.And there are so many flavours of Linux, supporting them all is simply impossible even though they may all be based on the same kernel (and Oracle doesn't, they support but 3 different distributions afaik...) But Larry strongly supports Linux, at least in interviews, so who knows...

Regards,

    Vladimir M. Zakharychev
    N-Networks, makers of Dynamic PSP(tm)     http://www.dynamicpsp.com Received on Tue Sep 19 2006 - 13:08:20 CDT