Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> __/ [ yttrx ] on Wednesday 23 August 2006 14:57 \__
>
>> Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>> Fresh Rumors Erupt over Red Hat-Oracle Buy
>>>
>>> ,----[ Quote ]
>>> | "Well, wouldn't it be much less expensive for Oracle to create its
>>> | own community distribution? [They could spend] 50 percent [of what it
>>> | would cost to buy Red Hat] and go buy Novell and use SUSE as the
>>> | Oracle-Linux distribution.
>>> |
>>> | "Probably even cheaper to throw a billion at the problem and go find
>>> | a third-tier Linux distribution and hire the team and deploy an
>>> | Oracle enterprise Linux."
>>> `----
>>>
>>> http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,2007220,00.asp
>>
>> This is idiocy on oracle's part.
>>
>> 1. Anyone whos running oracle in any sort of serious way is NOT running
>> it on linux, because linux simply lacks the stability of big-iron UNIX
>> under very, very heavy i/o. Don't argue with me on this one--its a fact,
>> and I know it from first hand experience. Oracle on linux is fine for
>> light and medium-duty applications, but the moment you get into databases
>> hundreds of gigs large, containing tens of millions of records and
>> dealing with a hundred operations a second or more, you use something
>> other than linux.
>
>> 2. Anyone whos bent on running oracle on linux isnt going to buy a big
>> fancy version of linux from Oracle, when they can get a better, more
>> developed version from pretty much anyone else.
>>
>> 3. Oracle will run well on FreeBSD with linux binary emulation, by the
>> way.
>
> Still, 60% of Oracle's clients are using Linux and, according to a recent
> survey, they were very satisfied with it. Oracle might be better off
> (financially) embracing Linux and extending (for all else to use) until it
> becomes as good as proprietary UNIX. I also doubt the validity of this
> argument, but I'll give you all the benefit of my doubts/inexperience.
If 60% of the people using oracle are running it on linux, then theyre
using oracle in an environment where postgres would be in all ways just
as good, but also FREE.
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