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

"Bob Jones" <email_at_me.not> wrote in message news:mU_Pg.3575$6S3.3300_at_newssvr25.news.prodigy.net...
>> 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.
>

Oracle running on clustered iPods. Received on Wed Sep 20 2006 - 13:20:29 CDT