Re: SUSE or Red Hat
- From: Maimon Oded <oded.maimon@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 31 Oct 2005 22:46:50 +0200
isn't free gives you no support from sun?
On 10/31/05, Ray Stell <stellr@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>
> Sun has made solaris free and open source. This could make it popular.
> That is what sun is hoping, anyway. If oracle would support it better
> that would help from my pov. Free is alot cheaper than either of the
> supported linux threads.
>
>
>
> On Mon, Oct 31, 2005 at 10:33:45PM +0200, Maimon Oded wrote:
> > Hi,
> > Redhat is the most popular distro. suse is most popular in Europe.
> > Oracle will support the most popular distros in the market, i find it
> hard
> > to
> > believe that suse will lose there market share so much that they will
> stop
> > be one of the most popular distros. so oracle will support it.
> > that what i think.
> > Oded.
> >
> > On 10/31/05, Ray Stell <stellr@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > >
> > > Sadly, oracle support of Solaris has really faded, which is really
> > > irritating given how 10 is looking. Have you looked at dtrace?
> > > It's the tool you have been looking for all your computing life.
> > > The key-word below is "concisely." When I saw it in action I was in
> awe.
> > > Come to think of it, dtrace might be the reason oracle doesn't support
> > > solaris as well; little the OS or an app does is behind the scenes
> with
> > > dtrace in your tool belt.
> > >
> > > http://www.sun.com/bigadmin/content/dtrace/
> > > "DTrace is a comprehensive dynamic tracing framework for the Solaris
> > > Operating Environment. DTrace provides a powerful infrastructure to
> > > permit administrators, developers, and service personnel to concisely
> > > answer arbitrary questions about the behavior of the operating system
> > > and user programs."
> > >
> > > I wonder if M$ has a dtrace-like tool for users ;)
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > Mon, Oct 31, 2005 at 10:26:11AM -0700, Mark Moynahan wrote:
> > > > If you're going to be migrating to a *nix environment you may want
> to
> > > > broaden your OS choice to include Solaris 10. If Solaris is not an
> > > > option then RH.
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > Mark Moynahan
> > > > Database Administration
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> > > > Apollo Group Inc.
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> > > > 480.201.3027 - Cell
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> > > > mark.moynahan@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > ________________________________
> > > >
> > > > From: oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > > > [mailto:oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Jeffrey
> Beckstrom
> > > > Sent: Friday, October 28, 2005 8:58 AM
> > > > To: oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx; oracle-db-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx;
> > > > ORACLE-L@xxxxxxxxxxxxx; oracledba@xxxxxxxxxxx;
> > > > oracle-rdbms@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > > > Subject: SUSE or Red Hat
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > We are looking at migrating to Linux from Windows and was wondering
> > > > which version of Linux is the most popular/preferred.
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > Jeffrey Beckstrom
> > > > Database Administrator
> > > > Greater Cleveland Regional Transit Authority
> > > > 1240 W. 6th Street
> > > > Cleveland, Ohio 44113
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