Re: Oracle 10g on HP blade server

DA Morgan wrote:
> Niall Litchfield wrote:
> > DA Morgan wrote:
> >> If you can eliminate Windows and go to Linux you will, however, greatly
> >> improve the quality of the experience.
>
> > none of my windows admins understand linux,
>
> All *NIX admins, however, understand Windows ... which explains
> why they are working with *NIX. <g>
> --
> Daniel A. Morgan
> University of Washington
> damorgan_at_x.washington.edu
> (replace x with u to respond)
> Puget Sound Oracle Users Group
> www.psoug.org

And some of us Windows admins have worked with Linux, having had to patch and compile the kernel to add X.509 certificate capabilities in order to build a VPN server from the ground up, and then finding that the patch was no good and having to start over with compiling the Working Overloaded Kernel, and then finding three months later (having spent three months building the VPN server) that all such VPN servers were susceptible to an exploit, and that development of that VPN server software stopped.

We have a couple Linux boxes running here, but after seeing one of them complain that there is severe file corruption on the hard drive, EVERY time the server has been restarted after 90 days of uptime (darn power outages), I wouldn't trust Linux to run an Oracle database. That said, I put two more Linux servers in production last night.

Charles Hooper
PC Support Specialist
K&M Machine-Fabricating, Inc. Received on Wed Nov 08 2006 - 15:07:09 CST