Advanced Linux is free, but if you choose to buy prepackaged distribution then you have to pay for it. But you will find the same software as in "downloaded" distribution. :-)
I'm using SuSE workstation for Oracle developing and everyday office work more than 2 years now and, personally (!), to work today on Windows200 is a pain for me. I'm using KDE desktop. JP On Friday 28 February 2003 13:59, you wrote: > www.opensource.org and other sites (The Register) and > www.globetechnology.com (Globe & Mail's technology news site) mentioned > that MS considers LINUX a threat. > > Last week I attended an OS security class where each student had two PCs, > one was a Windows2000 machine, one was a LINUX machine. The LINUX machine > came with Gnome, which doesn't look all that bad. I would argue that the > LINUX GUI needs a bit of streamlining but you can see that it has > dramatically improved. > > LINUX still has software compatibility problems, the courseware referred to > a LINUX configuration program that (for some unknown reason) wouldn't work > on our LINUX machines. > > The LINUX machines seemed to have older hardware, I have the impression > that they were the ones the training center had "replaced and upgraded" to > Windows2000, but now had turned around and were using them for teaching OS > security on LINUX. Speed was comparable. > > The irony is that as LINUX becomes more streamlined, vendors start charging > for it... Will there be a meeting in the middle of open source OS and > Windows? If Microsoft has to reduce its prices for Windows, how will it > maintain its revenue growth? > > Advanced LINUX is not free either, I don't know how its price compares with > the Windows2000 offering though. > > Regards, > Patrice Boivin > Systems Analyst (Oracle Certified DBA) > > > > -----Original Message----- > Sent: Thursday, February 27, 2003 7:40 PM > To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L > > > As long as I'm not replaced by an open source (cheap) DBA .... > > > Stephane Paquette > Administrateur de bases de donnees > Database Administrator > Standard Life > www.standardlife.ca > Tel. (514) 925-7187 > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > -----Original Message----- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, February 27, 2003 5:04 PM > To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L > > > I don't believe MS will ever give up. Isn't that part of American > Capitalism? Your competitor does you one better on some test, therefore > you've > got to better them. Give Oracle a couple of weeks and we'll here that one > too. > > But seriously, how many of us really care about the TP-C benchmark? > It's > great for marketing and the sales droids but how do I relate that to the > business needs of where I'm working? Great, we can push the database to > 400K+ > transactions per second, wow. Now if I could just get those 300 testers on > the > floor to take advantage of that when their tests are 5 minutes long!! > Somehow > the capabilities of the server/database combination has gotten SOO big that > it > can't be filled anymore or so the users think when they release the query > from > hell. > > BTW: As I look down the road to the future, I wonder how much of the > commercial software industry is going to survive the wave of open source > stuff > coming down the pipe? Here I am, today, sitting at a MS Win2K desktop with > Oracle running on the database server. A couple of years down the road I > can > see a Linux, or some derivative of it, as the desktop and PostgreSql on the > database server. Processing data will still have to happen and relational > data > will still be around, but will MS and Oracle?? Damn good question I'd have > to > say. > > /* rant mode off, cool mode on */ > > Dick Goulet > > ____________________Reply Separator____________________ > Author: DENNIS WILLIAMS <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: 2/27/2003 11:26 AM > > For your amusement, MS thinks they can "now" equal Oracle in performance > (wasn't that what they claimed 3 years ago?). > Anyway, I tend to think of these benchmarks like the NASCAR winners. Yeah > I'm going to go by a Chrysler because it won the NASCAR championship. > > http://www.entmag.com/news/article.asp?EditorialsID=5707 > <http://www.entmag.com/news/article.asp?EditorialsID=5707> > > > > Dennis Williams > DBA, 40%OCP, 100% DBA > Lifetouch, Inc. > [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.net -- Author: Jan Pruner INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fat City Network Services -- 858-538-5051 http://www.fatcity.com San Diego, California -- Mailing list and web hosting services --------------------------------------------------------------------- To REMOVE yourself from this mailing list, send an E-Mail message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (note EXACT spelling of 'ListGuru') and in the message BODY, include a line containing: UNSUB ORACLE-L (or the name of mailing list you want to be removed from). You may also send the HELP command for other information (like subscribing).
