Re: Oracle's relationships with expert DBAs (and the rest of us mere mortals)

From: bill thater <shrekdba_at_gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 1 Jun 2006 10:51:36 -0500
Message-ID: <a1d204910606010851x62dd00bdxc8ed0feda2f09983@mail.gmail.com>

> This is NOT only initial cost YOU have to jump through the same hoops every
> time Linux changes their os which is more often than Solaris (we ran on the
> same boxes same os for 7 years).

hmmmm.... all we've had to do is apply the kernel patches, reboot the box and bring up the databases. maybe i've been lucky?

> And again you are running ORACLE why would you choose the worst possible
> hardware/os for it? This is an ORACLE list after all where we collaborate on
> the best practices of running ORACLE. ORACLE/Linux is not the best practice.

well, seems to work fine for us with no major problems. guess it may be how you define best practice?

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Received on Thu Jun 01 2006 - 10:51:36 CDT