Re: Why doesn't Oracle care about Linux as IBM does?

Hmm, maybe my english is worse than I thought...

Oracle requires "Certified vendor-supplied operating system-dependent layer for UNIX, or Oracle operating system-dependent layers for Windows NT and Windows 2000"
(http://download-west.oracle.com/otndoc/oracle9i/901_doc/rac.901/a89868/intro.htm#1022312)

On AIX (just as an example that is):
http://www.rs6000.ibm.com/software/sp_products/pssp_pres/hacmp.html
(supports 32 nodes)

On Sun: http://www.sun.com/software/cluster/features_benefits.html
(supports 8 nodes)

HP: http://www.hp.com/products1/unix/highavailability/ar/serviceops/index.html
(supports 8 nodes)

DB2 requires none of that (not on AIX, not anywhere)

I didn't plan to rub that in, just wanted to point out that DB2 can very well work clustered without certified software on W2k or XP which is what you doubted.

Maybe all those vendors are just weeks away from supporting limitless scalability as promissed by Oracle, maybe it will take years for Oracle to be able to scale to 300 nodes because the OS/hardware just can't do it today.

Either way if you want to use 9i RAC instead of DB2 today you should use AIX which is fine by me ;-)

Cheers
Serge Received on Tue Aug 14 2001 - 13:29:46 CDT