Re: Oracle 8 *Top 10 wishlist*

Craig Kelley wrote:
>
> In article <33172C42.40AA_at_rell.com>, Doug Barnes <dwb_at_rell.com> wrote:
>
> ->Experience, most people I've known that use LINUX were looking for
> ->freebies. I don't know anything about that hole in YOUR head but all I
> ->was saying is that Oracle is expensive and that MANY people who use it
> ->won't pop the several THOUSAND DOLLARS for Oracle to put on top of
> ->LINUX. I think LINUX is OK (for the most part). Many companies that
> ->pop for ORACLE want vendor support of the O/S it sits on in case of
> ->incompatibilities between the O/S and the database. I doubt that Oracle
> ->will put much effort into a relatively unsupported O/S even though it
> ->really is a fairly vanilla UNIX.
>
> Sad, really. We run a fairly large Oracle database on an older RS/6000
> running AIX 3.1.2 and Oracle8 will not support 3.1.2. We have two
> new Linux/Intel machines (which beat the pants off our AIX boxes in raw
> performance) with high-end SCSI devices attached. Right now, we are
> trying out the solid server to see if it will be able to handle the big
> tables which Oracle is currently responsible for. I would like to renew
> our Oracle contract and move everything over to the Linux boxes, but if
> they will not provide an upgrade method (we do _not_ want to upgrade AIX
> just to run Oracle) then "que vayan".
>
> If Oracle doesn't support Linux because it is a "poor mans" operating
> system, then why do they make a WindowsNT version??
>
> --
> Craig Kelley
> "The goal of science is to build better mousetraps. The goal of nature
> is to build better mice."
> kellcrai_at_cwis.isu.edu (http://www.isu.edu/~kellcrai) finger for PGP block

Because MicroSoft is a better known quatity to them (Oracle), they know Microsoft is NOT going away tomorrow and that if a major bug is found they WILL fix it is some resonable timeframe. Received on Sat Mar 01 1997 - 00:00:00 CET