The Linux Journal Magazine released an article on "Trying Oracle on
Linux in the Enterprise", subtitled "How does Linux compare on a large
scale to a well-proven commercial UNIX product?"
For those who have large Oracle based hospital databases and that do not
want to be dependent neither from Windows, nor proprietary UNIX
dialects, this could be interesting:
http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/8387
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Just a comment on the subject of Oracle and Linux:
We (a few e-HealthExpert.org members) have helped an European Public
Enterprise to set up a Oracle 8 DBMS over low cost, software based, high
reliability cluster.
The specifications asked for a growth capability of 100 GB/year and
gave room for low cost common PC hardware.
We opted for reliable and relatively low cost PC hardware parts,
using Debian Linux 3.1, DRBD 0.7 raid SW driver and Heartbeat, to setup
and manage the high reliability cluster.
The system is (reliably!) running since Feb. 2005. It is expected to
grow up to 250 GB over the first 2 years (but it has a present practical
ceiling of 16 TB).
For those interested in the subject there is a paper describing the
experiment.
J. Antas
