Roy Schestowitz wrote:
> Oracle 11g: First on Linux
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> | The newest database will ship in August, but Oracle offers no details on
> | Windows or other versions.
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> http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,134381-c,databases/article.html
As far as I remember they always did update the UNIX side first, so updating
UNIX/Linux at the same time will be the norm now. That is where the bulk of
their money is/was made.
By the way Oracle haven't been idle in the Linux camp. Most are in a
particular area, to do with Oracle on Linux, moving from UNIX mainly.
But two things in particular stand out. First is the Oracle on Linux
installation test, designed to give IT folk who are worried about updateing
or moving a Live database a bit of a hand (and wouldn't sweat a fair bit at
that prospect). It's part scripts and part consultation.
Then something I think is particularly nice, if any of you have installed a
major system such as Oracle, particularly if it involved many slaves, will
know that it could at times mean many over night sessions living on pizza
and anything you can find in the company sweets machine, and it was always
them bloody diddy little packets of plain buiscuits, daft putting stuff
like that in sweet machines I say.
Well, how about an rpm to check you have all of the right bits and bobs
before the install begins, still within the rpm. Now that is magic. Yes I
know it is the norm for Linux, but it isn't the norm for Oracle.
So you see we in Linux get the most powerfull database in the world, we get
a support company that is very likely better at supporting overall
networks, on a par with IBM and HP. In return Oracle get the advantages of
Linux. Go on play a little game calle 'Test Redhat', ring them and say
this:-
'Our main server has a problem with it's database application, but at the
same time we have lost touch with our Scottish office, the Cisco routers
seem to be playing up, and a truck has just sliced the fibre optic to the
other side of the factory with it's aerial'.
How much of that are Redhat interested in?
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