-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 J Sloan wrote:
Pascal Bleser wrote:
Indeed, you'd best run Oracle on SLES.
True, SLES is the "safe" choice, and that's what my large SuSE customers are running - but I often do work for some smallish, cost-sensitive shops that are running SuSE Pro, and it works quite well for them.
Uh... well.. compared to Oracle license fees, SLES is almost unnoticeable.
This idea that SuSE Pro is "only for hobbyists" is a new idea that Novell seems to be pushing - in the old days SuSE Pro was known as a stable, well designed, polished distro, which "just worked" out of the box.
No, I don't think Novell is pushing that "idea". Well, of course, they
prefer selling their enterprise products, which is very understandable.
But SUSE Linux is not "only for hobbyists". The point about using SLES
for Oracle is certification and support. I mean, if you don't need
those, then why would you run Oracle in the first place ?
Unless you have some terrabyte-sized data warehousing to do (which is
pretty much the only case where I would choose Oracle, and maybe RAC for
a high-availability-and-load-balancing-nightmare-scenario), you'll be
much better off with PostgreSQL or MySQL anyway. The latter are much
easier to install, administrate and are far lower on resources.
And don't tell me it's for the freeware edition of Oracle 10g... you
know that you don't even get to see bugs and patches (not even
mentioning downloading patches) without a support contract with Oracle ? ;)
But maybe I'm drifting off of the original thread topic... ;)
cheers
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