Re: Linux

Please, Oracle: DO NOT SUPPORT LINUX! You are spread too thin as it is!

Gonzalo A. Diethelm wrote:

> Roger Irwin wrote in message <3559C9BF.88A4B1F5_at_trucco.it>...
> >As our company is shifting from AS400 to an Oracle, I went to see what
> >Linux ports where available on the oracle website. Found nothing. There
> >was a page that says something about supporting over 90 platforms and
> >OS's, but apparently no Linux on any of the various platforms it runs.
> >Is this true? I have a Linux server stuffed under a desk and it just
> >runs and runs. The keyboard and monitor are gathering dust away in a
> >storeroom. Is it really true that Oracle offer no Linux compatibility?
>
> A big "ME TOO"! Our company depends heavily on Oracle, and I would
> love to use our linux e-mail and news servers as alternative database
> platforms.
>
> If anybody from Oracle is listening, then hear this: linux is a perfectly
> viable platform, and I for one know a few companies that would be
> willing to invest in Oracle for linux, if there was any. Emulation (SCO) is
> not an alternative, because that doesn't give us all the development
> tools for linux (like ProC).
>
> If it helps at all, I would like to remind Oracle that linux is "the fastest
> growing OS"; whatever that means, I think Oracle should give linux at
> least a serious look.
>
> --
> Gonzalo A. Diethelm
> gonzo_at_ing.puc.cl
Received on Thu May 21 1998 - 22:33:25 CDT