HansF wrote:
> On Mon, 06 Nov 2006 10:32:24 -0800, DA Morgan wrote:
>
>> JEDIDIAH wrote:
>>> On 2006-11-06, DA Morgan <damorgan_at_psoug.org> wrote:
>>>> Mladen Gogala wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> I was asking for opinions on free distros, not on the lectures on Oracle
>>>>> support, universe and everything. Do you have an opinion of any free
>>>>> distribution or not?
>>>> Yes. Given that you are an Oracle consultant and need a platform from
>>>> which you can work ... stay away from them.
>>> Actually, learning to run Oracle on any random distribution that may
>>> be plopped in front of you will give you an enhanced understanding of how to
>>> work with Linux and put you head and shoulders above some of the other
>>> pretenders.
>>>
>>> Consider the fight with Fedora as part of the learning experience.
>>>
>>> Sweat in peacetime saves blood in wartime... not just for Marines.
>> Three seconds before, unless you have an evil clone, you wrote:
>>
>> "If you are interested in trying to get real work done whether
>> it is on the desktop or on the server then you should at least bother
>> to NOT INSTALL A KNOWN EXPERIMENTAL VERSION OF THE PRODUCT."
>>
>> It seems to me you are disagreeing with yourself.
>
> I think he's saying
>
> - for real work, use certified product;
>
> - for learning
>
> ... to learn ORACLE use certified Linux, clone or one known to work &
> already 'integrated' by the community (orarun, cookbook, or equiv);
>
> ... to learn Oracle ENVIRONMENT, learn how to integrate
> using one of the public betas, Fedora, or equiv.
>
> He just said it much more elegantly than I could...
>
> <g>
I read it as "spend a lot of time learning to fix something you'll never
actually do in the real world." I thought ... "thanks but I already have
more than enough to do." <g>
--
Daniel A. Morgan
University of Washington
damorgan_at_x.washington.edu
(replace x with u to respond)
Puget Sound Oracle Users Group
www.psoug.org
Received on Mon Nov 06 2006 - 13:35:13 CST
