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

> 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.

That would depend on what flavor of Linux you are talking about. I don't think Red Hat is trailing in either features or stability. Scalability? Maybe, in some ways.

> 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...
>

Enterprise Linux is basically dominated by Red Hat and SuSE. They are similar enough not to give you much trouble in support. But then you can always choose to go with just one.

Larry has been pushing Linux for good reasons. Not sure what else he has cooking. Hopefully not another Raw Iron project. Received on Tue Sep 19 2006 - 18:17:38 CDT