Re: Linux for x86 or Intel

From: Paul Drake <discgolfdba_at_yahoo.com>
Date: Wed, 26 May 2004 17:26:07 -0700 (PDT)
Message-ID: <20040527002607.2149.qmail@web20418.mail.yahoo.com>

Shawn Ferris <shawn_at_virtualsmf.net> wrote:
> > I don't mean to aggrevate those who run it on
> their
> > laptops, but no self-respecting sysadmin would
> allow a
> > Mac OS X server into the server room, especially
> for
> > running Oracle on top of in production (or
> testing,
> > for that matter).
>
> Why not? I'd run one of *BSD OS's in the server
> room, and OS X is
> essentially that. I see no harm in it.. I would
> certainly prefer it over a
> MS solution ANY day. 8)
>
> my $.02
> Shawn

Obviously, you have not worked with Oracle Support. You have not attempted to get bug fixes or patches, patchsets in a short amount of time.

Guess how many production releases of Oracle Database Server had been issued that are supported on [Free|Net|Open] BSD?

how about zero?
run it on Linux or some real *nix.

but be my guest to go have fun and wear that badge of honor. Post on /. that you have a Beowulf Cluster of PPCs running Oracle on Mac OS X, I'm sure your karma will love it. maybe you won't ever need to work with Oracle Support and get a bugfix. The thing is, that they are going to have to setup a reproducible test case for themselves and for development in order to get a fix out to you.

(btw - in my experience, patches on win32 take months longer than on lin32, and I've had excellent response in getting issues resolved with 9.2 on lin32).

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