Re: RAC on Mac News

From: DA Morgan <damorgan_at_psoug.org>
Date: Sat, 21 May 2005 22:34:43 -0700
Message-ID: <1116739824.289242@yasure>

Serge Rielau wrote:

>> There is a reason why Oracle is buy this hardware for its own
>> data centers: It works.

>
> I thought Oracle is all Linux now... or was that only the last 3 years?

Oracle firmly believes, as the phrase goes, in eating its own dog food. Thus if they are going to advise others to follow the Resilient Low-Cost Storage Initiative they must do so too: And they are.

>> The IBM P5 is an IBM P5 no matter whose
>> hardware it is in.

>
> True :-)

I just love stating the obvious. ;-)

>> And UNIX is UNIX is UNIX whether you call it
>> AIX or Solaris or OSX/Darwin. If you can drive a Chevy you can
>> drive a Ford. Same thing here .... All I am doing is making sure
>> that people realize there is one more entre' on the menu.

>
> While the rest of the gang is either open sourcing there Unix OS (like
> Sun) or otherwise moving to Linux (like IBM) or goes begging in BLOGs
> for application support (HP).
> The OS is turning into a commodity. I question the wisdom of Apple in
> pushing another proprietary Unix flavor.
> Application and middleware vendors will need some convincing to make
> this a success. That's where the car metaphore breaks down.
>
> Cheers
> Serge

What's proprietary about OSX/Darwin?

What OS is at its foundation? BSD!
What is the current status of Darwin? Open Source! What is proprietary in OSX? Aqua which is just the GUI.

When was the last time, in making a decision about a *NIX server operating system, did anyone care about the GUI? BASH is BASH, Korn is Korn, vi is vi etc. Open a terminal window and it is *NIX. And that is where any Oracle DBA will be doing 99% of their work.

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Daniel A. Morgan
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Received on Sun May 22 2005 - 00:34:43 CDT