Yes, oracle has pushed linux very hard. Especially in combination with RAC. There are some things to keep in mind:
0) Folks on linux tend to jump on the latest version before the solaris folks, so why not release 10G Rev 2 for linux first (like earlier this week). I know that I'll install anything on my linux workstation. But my production solaris db servers? no way. 1) Only a very small subset of linux distros are actually supported (RHEL and SUSE come to mind as the only 2 i can think of off the top of my head). Any version of solaris with any patch combination is supported unless explicitly listed in the release notes (I've discovered that it is the other way around with the linux distros) 2) When oracle had to pick a platform for its enterprise system, it chose a 4 node SunFire 25K. Not linux. why? (yes, they do a linux grid cluster for the demo databases where individual instances do not need to scale beyond what a single 2/4 cpu system can deal with) So, the distinction is simple: want stability over features? Solaris. Want features over stability? go with linux. (By 'stability', i'm not talking crashes, i'm talking predictable behavior over a long period of time) This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
