Re: Oracle 10g R2 RHEL 5 When?

On Jun 28, 3:15 am, Laurenz Albe <inv..._at_spam.to.invalid> wrote:
> HansF <fuzzy.greybe..._at_gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Jun 26, 1:22 pm, Jack <jrsc..._at_comcast.net> wrote:
> >> I get the definite feeling that Linux is not Oracle's forte. It is
> >> overly sensitive to the shared libraries.
>
> > You are absolutely right.
>
> What is meant by 'it'?
> Linux is sensitive to its shared libraries?
> Oracle is sensitive to Linux' shared libraries?
>
> Anyway, both is unavoidable. How can you NOT be sensitive to changes or
> bugs in library functions you are using?
>
> > It would be sooo much better for Oracle to take a copy of the required
> > public libraries, place them in non-standard directories, keep them
> > totally static, and maintain bug fixes in parallel with the library
> > maintainers.
>
> > Or perhaps Oracle should simply duplicate the functionality of the
> > public libraries and maintain that at their own cost ... since people
> > obviously would not want to pay for the duplicate effort.
>
> In both cases the effort Oracle would have to make is tremendous.
> *If* they would consider something like that, the best thing would
> be to make their own Linux distribution (I'm not speaking of Oracle
> Enterprise Linux here which is just a RedHat clone which exists solely
> to put RedHat under pressure).
>
> > Or perhaps Oracle should simply make reference to the required
> > libraries in their documentation and hope that people would read that
> > before attempting to install and run.
>
> ... and lose RedHat support right away because they replace system
> libraries.
>
> Yours,
> Laurenz Albe

I definitely should have marked my post with "warning - heavy sarcasm"

/Hans Received on Thu Jun 28 2007 - 06:57:19 CDT