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RE: Re: Oracle belongs on Solaris, not linux.
I am an Oracle, SQL Server, and MySQL admin since '99, a Certified Oracle 8 & 8i DBA. I've been a *N*X Admin (HP-UX, AIX, SCO, and Linux) since '87, a Brainbench certified shell scripter (whoopee).

SQL Server is for small to medium projects requiring little to no security. It's ok for non high availability projects for which you can reboot the server at least nightly. You are stuck on Windows.

MySQL is great for small, medium, or large projects requiring no security other than that provided by the OS and no partitioning, Stored Procedures, triggers, etc. The latter 2 have been added recently but those features are not yet sufficiently stable. You can run on many OSes.

Oracle is great for small to VERY Large projects requiring high security, high concurrency, and Clustering OR for embedding into any of our products which we sell to our customers. In that case, with 20 or fewer users, the price for Embedded Oracle Database (Standard Edition One) is a fraction of SQL Server and less than MySQL. Now, before you yak about it being free, check the MySQL licensing, guys. You can run Oracle on nearly every OS out there, from Win95 to Solaris, to VMS, to OS390, and everything in between.

Solaris is nice, however it lacks anything other than command line admin utilities. It takes far more work to generate a quick picture of how the system as a whole is functioning than HP's Glance.

Linux (my favorite being Centos 64-bit) is fast, friendly, and easier to administer than Solaris.

The best things about *N*X are
1) CRON
2) Shell scripting
3) Stability

My 2 favorite things about AIX:
1) The ability to (w/o purchasing add'l software) expand a Filesystem on the fly. I did that in the mid-90s on AIX 3.2.5 and found it to be the greatest thing in the world.
2) Stability. It almost never pooped on me.


Jim
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Not Surprising  itanalyst | 08/09/05
We run on AIX  nucrash | 08/09/05
Only time I've seen an AIX system crash...  ju1ce | 08/09/05
Only Time I've Ever Seen ANY Unix System Crash  itanalyst | 08/09/05
Only time I've seen an AIX system crash...  Brian@... | 08/09/05
I'v seen AIX 5.2 crash a few times due to JFS2 bugs  michael_t | 08/09/05
We used a small Ultra-1 back in 1996 with Oracle 7  michael_t | 08/09/05
That's enough from the Larry fan club  jorwell | 08/10/05
Never notice the memory leaks  voska | 08/15/05
Oracle looking to Linux  Loverock Davidson | 08/09/05
Isn't there an article on Oracle switching to Linux  nucrash | 08/09/05
Costs...  ju1ce | 08/09/05
Larry wants more of your money  jorwell | 08/10/05
I believe. . .  Sheeva | 08/10/05
Re: Oracle belongs on Solaris, not linux.  Otto_Delete | 08/10/05
RE: Re: Oracle belongs on Solaris, not linux.  jkotan | 08/18/05
In Other News, Microsoft Announces Vulnerabilities AGAIN  itanalyst | 08/09/05
Is there any time you don't?  John Zern | 08/09/05
Yeah, for short lengths of time.  Brian@... | 08/09/05
you ever read the advisories on the updates?  linuxoverwindows | 08/10/05
Somebodies complained that the advisories were overly  Boot_Agnostic | 08/11/05
It COULD be worse!  jkotan | 08/18/05
That's Ok, We Still Have The Stability Of Access And SQL Server On Windows  itanalyst | 08/09/05
That's Ok, We Still Have The Stability Of Access And SQL Server On Windows  Brian@... | 08/09/05
Oh Yes, It Must Be Babied And Coddled  itanalyst | 08/09/05
Oh Yes, It Must Be Babied And Coddled  Brian@... | 08/09/05
but his wife heard...  linuxoverwindows | 08/10/05
10.0 Bravo Wheel, Bravo!!! (nt)  tbbrickster_z | 08/10/05
Actually  Boot_Agnostic | 08/11/05
Access vs Foxpro .....  IanX | 08/10/05
So if they say 50% will be running Linux  John Zern | 08/09/05
When you were contemplating this you were using more or less than  michael_t | 08/09/05
Ouch! - In a forum of shots -  Gonna_Snap | 08/09/05
They said %50 of their customers; It was a friendly puch in good taste;_)nt  michael_t | 08/11/05
Well Duh  supoman | 08/09/05
solaris has lower numbers than HP-UX  dwjunix | 08/11/05
Long life Linux!  tonydi | 08/09/05
The hosting comparison article that you refer to  dougpierson@... | 08/11/05
Oracle on Linux is the best  sajidwarsi | 08/09/05
Follow the money ...  IanX | 08/10/05
Re: Follow the money ...  IanX | 08/10/05
Maybe?  Edward@... | 08/10/05
Bye-Bye Billy...  jkotan | 08/18/05
In other news, MS buys silicon factory  FilledOut | 08/10/05
Watch out Linux, Oracle's looking at you  Boot_Agnostic | 08/11/05
RE: Watch out Linux, Oracle's looking at you  jkotan | 08/18/05
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