On Wed, 2004-07-14 at 19:27, steve wrote: > The only downside about that is that Oracle is only certified on > commercial versions of Linux... RedHat Enterprise Linux V3.0 in this > case. Whilst I agree wholeheartedly with the basic sentiments, and that > Linux should be the back office OS of choice, these companies have > generated a halfway house between true commercial Unixes ( ices? ) and > free Linux.
Red Hat's share of the market has been falling slowly but surely and the Oracle guys are going to wake up to this eventually - or they'll be overtaken by MySQL and the problem will be solved a different way. Once they start losing clients because Red Hat becomes a liability, things will probably change. Oracle will run under Debian etc., and instructions on how to fool the Oracle installer into working on any distro are on the Debian website. My wife Suz (an independent Oracle Guru) says that there is now a --nooscheck option to the installer somewhere. Vik :v) -- This PC runs Linux. If you find a virus apparently from me, it has forged the e-mail headers on someone else's machine. Please do not notify me when this occurs. Thanks.
