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

"Matthias Hoys" <anti_at_spam.com> wrote in message news:4511866f$0$1202$ba620e4c_at_news.skynet.be...
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> "Bob Jones" <email_at_me.not> wrote in message
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>>> 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.
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>> 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.
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>>> 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...
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>> 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.
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>> Larry has been pushing Linux for good reasons. Not sure what else he has
>> cooking. Hopefully not another Raw Iron project.
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> Oracle running on clustered iPods.
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Now that is refreshing. Received on Wed Sep 20 2006 - 19:46:15 CDT