Re: Oracle 10g R2 on Linux EE or AS

From: Bob Jones <email_at_me.not>
Date: Thu, 10 Nov 2005 00:29:46 GMT
Message-ID: <_vwcf.10084$BZ5.9259@newssvr13.news.prodigy.com>

<ronnie_yours_at_yahoo.com> wrote in message news:1131575506.382138.259970_at_g49g2000cwa.googlegroups.com...
> Hi,
>
> Red Hat says that we should use Red Hat Advanced Server for databases
> but both RH Enerprise edition and Advanced server are supported by
> Oracle. I am not sure which one we should be going with.
>
> The support charges for RH AS is over $2000 per year whereas for
> Enterpise edition its around $800 per year. With $2000+ / year RH
> Advanced server looks to be more expensive than windows. We are looking
> to make this our product database server.
>
> Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
>
> -Ron
>

The difference between AS and ES is the amount of hardware they support. You might want to look into CentOS. It is the same as RHEL and the software cost nothing. You can use the money saved to buy more CPUs or memory, or even give yourself a raise. Received on Wed Nov 09 2005 - 18:29:46 CST