Re: Oracle released ( finally ) 10.2 on solaris 10 x86 ( 32 bit )

On Tue, 19 Sep 2006 23:17:38 GMT, "Bob Jones" <email_at_me.not> wrote:

>> Personally, I would go with Solaris - Linux won't be anywhere near in
>> features, stability and scalability for the next few years even with
>> all effort put into it, by which time Solaris will move even
>> further.
>
>That would depend on what flavor of Linux you are talking about. I don't
>think Red Hat is trailing in either features or stability. Scalability?
>Maybe, in some ways.

Can you proof that, or do we need to take your word for that?
>
>> And there are so many flavours of Linux, supporting them all is
>> simply impossible even though they may all be based on the same kernel
>> (and Oracle doesn't, they support but 3 different distributions
>> afaik...) But Larry strongly supports Linux, at least in interviews, so
>> who knows...
>>
>
>Enterprise Linux is basically dominated by Red Hat and SuSE. They are
>similar enough not to give you much trouble in support. But then you can
>always choose to go with just one.

Yet another unsubstantiated *opinion*
>
>Larry has been pushing Linux for good reasons.

Yet another unsubstantiated *opinion*

Not sure what else he has
>cooking. Hopefully not another Raw Iron project.
>

And another one.

Gee, what an useful post!!!

Do you ever post anything else but drivel?

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Sybrand Bakker, Senior Oracle DBA