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Means much more than you're giving credit for
We agree Oracle is a propriety software product. But to say
Oracle is only doing this for OS independence is a massive
oversimplification.

"The line "because software written for Windows isn't
portable to other operating systems" is a dead give-away -
if portability is an issue, what other OS's can you port to
easily if you write for Linux?"

From Linux, Oracle can easily port to any of the *nix style
OSes. The OSes host a huge number of Oracle Databases
and contribute a even greater amount of revenue. The list
includes (but not limited to) AIX, HP-UX, Mac OS X, BSD
family (freeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD), Solaris, Tru64 Unix,
Iris, NCR Unix, OpenServer, and UnixWare.

"Large databases tend to be run on dedicated machines, so
as long as the box plays nicely on the network, the OS
becomes more or less irrelevant"

Large database systems require stable support for very
large file systems, massive network and disk throughput,
large number of processors, hardware redundancy (such as
taking file-systems offline without powering down),
enormous RAM and efficient swap paging, etc.

The OS is not irrelevant. It will have a great impact on
the performance of any database, its availability, its
scalability, and its administration.

"The only real winner here is Oracle: Linux gets a boost but
there's no dollars in it."

Linux gets a boost from the acknowledgement of a
company the size of Oracle that Linux is an enterprise
quality platform. It is this support, and the support from
IBM, Oracle, Red Hat, HP, etc, that gives confidence to IT
Managers to review Linux seriously as an alternative
platform. Together this financial and non-financial support
is helping the unprecedented growth that Linux servers
experiencing.

As mentioned in the article Oracle already has a significant
investment in staff contributing to the Linux kernel.

"Users will hardly notice the difference"

Except it maybe faster and more available;-) The
administrators (and the CFO) will certainly notice the
difference.

"Linux runs on exactly the same IBM AT/XT clone hardware
as Windows"

Linux CAN run on the same inexpensive x86
hardware, but it also runs on most architectures available
including platforms which scale well beyond what is
possible with windows. For some of these platforms the OS
and its support contract before Linux was a significant
expensive part of the DB server.
Posted by: Richard Flude   Posted on: 05/26/04 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use
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One more to the fold  Linux User 147560 | 05/26/04
And many more to come...  Grimm Reaper | 05/26/04
Re: One more to the fold  km4hr@... | 05/26/04
One of the few times I will complement a corporation  nucrash | 05/27/04
It is hardly Suprising...  ShadeTree | 05/27/04
Keep telling yourself that... denial is not a river in Egypt.  Xunil_Sierutuf | 05/27/04
Merely stating the facts  ShadeTree | 05/27/04
Don't see many  IT_User | 05/27/04
This can't be happening...  rinaldo | 05/26/04
im not sure  eLurker | 05/26/04
im not sure  seosamh_z | 05/26/04
too much sun  eLurker | 05/26/04
Make a lot of sense  Fred Fredrickson | 05/26/04
Not really  seosamh_z | 05/26/04
Since you asked  Yagotta B. Kidding | 05/26/04
Means much more than you're giving credit for  Richard Flude | 05/26/04
well, PostgreSQL for example  Romanval | 05/27/04
I believe it's process management.  doe_z | 05/27/04
Oracle RAC on Linux - very solid platform - but...  Plain Logic | 05/26/04
Guess they had no choice...  John Zern | 05/26/04
Strange, looking at the respective web-sites:  Richard Flude | 05/26/04
And so the future is solidified...  Xunil_Sierutuf | 05/27/04

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