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Re: linux & Oracle -- best combination

From: JOE TESTA <JTESTA_at_longaberger.com>
Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2001 08:42:17 -0700
Message-ID: <F001.00373FC8.20010822080259@fatcity.com>

and its only 2.3K :) 
 
guess i'm spoiled being able to grab darn near anything that oracle has from technet.
 
joe
>>> brian.mcgraw_at_infinity-insurance.com 08/22/01 11:00AM >>>True, but now RedHat pushes it as the 'Red Hat Database'...<A
href="http://www.redhat.com/products/software/database/">http://www.redhat.com/products/software/database/Christopher Spence wrote:> PostGresSQL has been out for years, and is not RedHat specific, all> distributions have included it.>> "Do not criticize someone until you walked a mile in their shoes, that way> when you criticize them, you are a mile a way and have their shoes.">> Christopher R. Spence> Oracle DBA> Phone: (978) 322-5744> Fax:    (707) 885-2275>> Fuelspot> 73
Princeton Street> North, Chelmsford 01863>>> -----Original Message-----> Sent: Tuesday, August 21, 2001 5:36 PM> To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L>> Correct me if I'm wrong, but wasn't Red Hat Oracle's preferred Linux> distribution, right up until the time they announced the availability of the> Red Hat Database (PostgreSQL)?>> Brian>> Christopher Spence wrote:>> > I would be curious to see these tests going forward, seeing as RedHat> > support is difficult to do with 9i and such.  And suse now being> > Oracle's perfered linux.  I wonder if these results have changed.  I> > never really played with Oracle on Linux, but if I ever had to, I> > would be curious.> >> > "Do not criticize someone until you walked a mile in their shoes, that> > way when you criticize them, you are a mile a way and have their> > shoes."> >> > Christopher R. Spence> > Oracle DBA> > Phone: (978) 322-5744> > Fax:    (707) 885-2275> >> > Fuelspot>
> 73 Princeton Street> > North, Chelmsford 01863>

>> >> > -----Original Message-----> > Sent: 
Tuesday, August 21, 2001 1:53 PM> > To: Multiple recipients of list 
ORACLE-L> >> > Lisa and others,> >> 

>      About a year ago, I was working for a company as a Linux systems> > engineer (Read as: Tech guy doing sales support).  Most of our> > customers wanted Linux systems, and it was my responsibility to> > provide them the correct combination of Linux and hardware to meet> > their needs.  I had an ISO 9002 compliance to maintain as I provided> > testing and supporting data to our clients.> >> > My first test was RedHat linux 6.1 with Oracle 8.1.5.  I don't have> > the benchmarks any more, but it worked the best.> >> > SCO Unix was bought by Caldera Linux and is not yet being implemented> > to the full capability (IMHO).> >> > Mandrake, SuSe, Storm were all tested as well,  And had less> > satisfactory performance and reliability.> >> > Slackware 7 was the next best solution, followed by TurboLinux 6.> >> > All of these configurations were tested on the same machine,> > completely formatted and the same installation performed on each test> > cycle.> >>
> I hope this is helpful information.> >> > Daniel
Curry> > Systems Administrator> > CGtime, Inc.> > 625 Second Street> > Suite 201> > San Francisco, CA 94107> > ph: 415-348-6516> > fx: 415-348-6505> > cell: 510-304-7889> >> > -----Original Message----->
> Sent: Tuesday, August 21, 2001 9:36 AM> > To: Multiple recipients
of list ORACLE-L> >> > Lisa> >> > SuSe
is the best so I have been told. I am about to install 8i on 7.1> > and another guy here is installing 9i on 7.2.> >> > Totally untested on my behalf as I haven't started yet but that is the> > best I have been told.> >> > Probably of no use whatsoever !!!> >> > Lee> > -----Original
Message-----> > Sent: 21 August 2001 16:51> > To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L> > Sorry everyone, I know you were just discussing this recently. What is> > the most stable combination of Oracle & Linux?  What would you> > recommend?  I want to say the consensus was SCO Linux but I don't> > quite remember. Thank you> > Lara Croft> > Oracle Database Administrator>
> Fairfield Resorts, Inc> >> >> > The

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