Re: advantages of unix for Oracle

Steve, Sybrand, Others,

Agree with the bag of rpms, but that is manageable.

Disagree with the blaming: Ability to put the blame is nice if you can sit back, say "SEP", and go home.

But in a critical on-line environment, the act of blaming doesnt fix the problem.
(it just means more account managers get involved, stiffling the process).

And in such cases, the advantages of Linux are:

• more control (you have to consult one less vendor)
• easier availabilty of commodity kit and drivers.

This can lead to more room for experimenting and faster problem resolution on Linux based systems compared to Big-Vendors.

Just my topppence.

Regards,

PdV

Cris wrote:

> Erik Dahle wrote:
>
> > I can't really say I've had to "assemble the O/S from numerous sources".
> > There might be some work to be done the first time you build the
> > platform, but when you've figured out which packages you need,
> > everything runs smooth.
>
> With SUSE, installing the O/S it's just a matter of pressing "Next" ->
> "Next" -> "Finish" buttons.
>
> > The ability to blame a vendor is highly overrated imho. When I hear
> > people talk about how important there is to be able to blame a vendor,
> > that's usually FUD against free software :)
>
> Anyway, you can still blame SUSE or RedHat, since you pay them for that :)
>
> Kind regards, Cristian
Received on Wed Jan 17 2007 - 09:47:21 CST