[Gllug] Oracle and Linux

[Ian Northeast]

Doug Winter wrote:
> On Tue 28 Oct Andrew Richardson wrote:
> 
>>Oracle may do great databases but they have no idea about accounting 
>>package design.
> 
> 
> All of their non-RDBMS software sucks.  We're running Oracle
> Applications here, and it's terrible.  In a previous life I had to
> support the Oracle Application Server, and that sucked too - although
> the later versions looked better they were still really badly
> architected.

Have you seen 9iASR2 (the only one they certify, i.e. support, on 
Linux)? It's a right pig to install and not much better to run. R1 is a 
lot easier and runs on Linux fine, but isn't certified so no support. 
And of course, with Oracle software you *need* support.

> I'd not touch anything other than their RDBMS with an extremely long
> stick.

A sound policy but unfortunately not one I can get away with.

Regards, Ian


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