Re: advantages of unix for Oracle

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>I would also always choose Unix instead of Linux, as Linux is just a
>bag of rpms and you always need to assemble your O/S from numerous
>places. In short: in a commercial environment, I want to be able to
>blame someone. If I can buy Oracle + Linux from Oracle, that is a good
>thing, because in that case I can blame one vendor.

I would choose Unix over Linux (Solaris Unix, I don't have experience with others) because

• Solaris (SPARC)is more mature
• Better documented (and there is only one 'tree' of solaris)
• More stable development/config wise
• Guaranteed binary compatibility!
• You can add a fibre disk to it on the fly w/o rebooting! (or reloading drivers, which is essentially the same--still need to take the db down)
• You can expand file systems on the fly
• for a powerful server, you still need a Unix box, or go with RAC, but RAC has it's drawbacks too (look for "you don't need rac" paper)

There are other minor annoyances that come up often when I work on Linux which I don't seem to recall from Solaris days

Hardware-wise I have mixed experience with both. Some old Solaris stuff was definetely 'faulty', but we still have some 7yrold Sun boxes running just fine.

However, Linux (often) has nicer, easier accessible tools available... for Solaris you are forced to go to places like www.sunfreeware.com. Bang for the buck seems better with Linux too.

my2kopeks
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We run Oracle 9iR2,10gR1/2 on RH4/RH3 and Solaris 10 (Sparc) remove NSPAM to email Received on Thu Jan 18 2007 - 01:54:55 CST