Re: Oracle running mostly on NT/win2000 or Unix?

The company that I work for has Oracle on 3 platforms, AIX & SUN (Unix), and Window's 2000. There is a trend here to move all of the Oracle databases to W2K platforms, and from what I hear many smaller companies are doing that as well.

I do plan to have a few test db's on Linux, but nothing in production. I do this because linux/unix allows more than one version of Oracle on the same machine.

However most of the databases I administer are relatively "small", and I would venture to say that most of the larger RDBMS's reside on platforms other than intel/windows.

I would advise taking a basic Unix course, and / or installing a Linux distro such as SuSE, Mandrake or Red Hat on a PC and learning some basic Unix skills on that, as well as installing / running Oracle , which is VERY different than installing on a windows box.

I have had no compelling need to learn Java yet, none of our applications use it yet but that may change in the future.

hth

"JinJJa" <jinjja_at_aol.com> wrote in message news:20020131024447.16506.00000643_at_mb-cu.aol.com...
> Hello, I am a MS SQL DBA of 5 years who is interested in learning Oracle.
>
> I would like to know on which OS platform does Oracle usually run on?
Someone
> told me Oracle runs on NT/2000 platform than any other OS. Other have said
> Oracle runs mostly on Unix. Can anyone give me an insight on this?
>
> Also, if I want to be serious about learning Oracle, should I familiarze
myself
> with Unix? How important is Java in learning Oracle?
>
> Thanks
> Jinsoo
>
>
Received on Thu Jan 31 2002 - 09:15:48 CST