RE: OT Oracle Server Operating System

  • From: "Billy Verreynne (JW)" <VerreyB@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Thu, 21 Jul 2005 15:43:50 +0200

Juan Carlos Reyes Pacheco wrote:

> I definetively think if Oracle decides to develop an OS which could
> work as an os database and a normal operating system.

Only if I get my beloved bash shell via a KDE Konsole GUI interface in
this new o/s. :-)

> Linux is interesting, but I don't have time to build the puzzle,
> seeking components, installing and testing. I expect something
already
> done and tested.

That's a very wrong and some what warped view of Linux. It was true
more than 10 years ago (where it took me most of the night to build a
custom kernel on a i386sx ;-). Today, it is not. It works out of the
box. It works better than Solaris. Better than HP-UX. It offers me as
Oracle DBA/software engineer a host of features and options that I
either do not have on other Unix flavours, or have to pay extra for.
If I have to fail Linux for anything, it is the lack of a HP-UX
Glance-like performance monitoring tool/scripting engine. But Glance
alone does not make HP-UX for example a better choice for me than
Linux.

I look (as DBA) after a couple of Solaris boxes, a handful of HP-UX
boxes, and over 30 Linux boxes (clustered and stand-alone, web servers
and Oracle). I do all my development on Linux. And if I have my way,
management will replace the others too with Linux (which is not bloody
likely to happen, but I can fanatasize, can't I? :-)

--
Billy

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