Re: which platform to pick for a scratch self education server

On 6 Feb, 06:00, pellicleund..._at_hotmail.com (Obakesan) wrote:
> Hi
>
> well I guess that I'm limited to some flavour of linux, but just incase I
> thought I'd ask for opinions from the many differing opinions which may lurk
> out here.
>
> At work in the past I've been on oracle (as a developer) from 7 through
> to 10g, always on solaris servers. The only oracle box I've set up and
> developed was on a flavour of linux called "miracal linux"
>
> not wanting to ignore the possiblity of there being advantages to windows
> server I thought I'd ask here if anyone has any reasons why that might be a
> better choice.
>
> being economically challenged at the moment, I'm thinking of setting this up
> on what ever I can get cheap (or free). I might (for example) be able to get
> an older x31 laptop that died going again. Perhaps (as it has a gig of DDR on
> it) that might be an acceptable server for running tests on. Might run Apache
> on it and see if I can get communication going there too.
>
> anyway, I'm leaning towards a linux insto, so any input appreciated
>
> thanks
>
> See Ya
> (when bandwidth gets better ;-)
>
> Chris Eastwood
> Photographer, Programmer              
> Motorcyclist and dingbat
>
> please remove undies for reply

Have you heard of Red Hat Enterprise Linux from Oracle?

http://www.oracle.com/technology/tech/linux/index.html

HTH -g Received on Wed Feb 06 2008 - 05:15:54 CST