Date: Sat, 02 May 1998 20:05:19 -0500 From: "Pedro F. Giffuni" <giffunip@asme.org> To: rssh@grad.kiev.ua Cc: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: [Fwd: Oracle on Linux enhancement request, need your support!] Message-ID: <354BC2CF.41C67EA6@asme.org> References: <354BBCAE.DB43058F@Shevchenko.Kiev.UA>
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Since SCO's Oracle (7) works fine under FreeBSD, I wouldn't see any benefit for us in a Linux version. If Oracle8 doesn't run, we should focus on improving our SYSV emulation, and/or request a FreeBSD port. OTOH I suspect Oracle has been looking closely FreeBSD and Linux. Wait till we have good kernel threads... Pedro. ( And IMHO Yes ! kill the penguin :) Ruslan Shevchenko wrote: > > -- > > @= > //RSSH mailto:Ruslan@Shevchenko.Kiev.UA > > --------------------------------------------------------------- > > Subject: Oracle on Linux enhancement request, need your support! > Date: Sat, 02 May 1998 21:25:37 GMT > From: "David Sisk" <davesisk@ipass.net> > Organization: iPass.Net > Newsgroups: comp.databases.oracle.misc,comp.databases.oracle.server > > Fellow Linux users: > I have posted several questions to this newsgroup, and I have been very > impressed with the quality of the responses, as well as the whole Linux > community in general. I'm installing Caldera's OpenLinux Base distribution > on a different PC right now (yes, I'm a newbie!), and I'd like to do what > little I personally can to help this O/S grow in popularity and even > successfully compete with Microsoft WindowsNT for corporate marketshare. > To contribute my little piece to the puzzle, I have gotten an enhancement > request generated at Oracle Corporation to provide a Linux port of Oracle8 > and other tools. (Enhancement request# 663419, the text from the request is > attached below.) To my understanding, none of the major database vendors > currently have a version of their core database product for the Linux O/S, > although I believe all of them are being asked for it. From my perspective > as an Oracle database administrator, one of the happenings that would > definitely help push the Linux O/S into corporations (and allow it to be > taken very seriously as an alternative to MS Windows95 and MS WindowsNT) > would be for the major database vendors to provide product offerings for > Linux. > Oracle Corporation (supposedly) periodically reviews enhancement requests > and looks at input from user groups, IOUG-A enhancements voting, and number > of TAR's (technical assistance requests) logged against the respective > enhancement requests. They already have the enhancement request, so if > anyone wants to help push, here's what you can do: > 1) If you are a member of the Internation Oracle User's Group - America's, > you can vote on this enhancement request at the next round of voting this > year. See www.ioug.org for details. > 2) If you are a member of a local Oracle user's group, type up a simple > petition stating that "The following member's of the xxx Oracle User's Group > would like to see Enhancement Request# 663419 'Linux port of ORACLE8' > implemented". Have the user group members sign the petition, and mail it > to: > ORACLE Corporation > Support Sales & Customer Services > 500 Oracle Parkway > Redwood Shores Ca 94065 > 3) If you are currently an Oracle customer and have purchased support > services, then you can call in a TAR. Simply indicate that your company > would like to see Enhancement Request# 663419 "Linux port of ORACLE8" > implemented. Do this in addition to #1 and/or #2, as Oracle product > managers review the volume of TAR's pointing to enhancement requests. > 4) If the above two options aren't available to you (if you're not already > an Oracle customer), then call the Support Sales & Customer Services at > 1-800-392-2999, and let them know that you'd like to see Enhancement > Request# 663419 "Linux port of ORACLE8" implemented. > Feel free to post a copy of this on any other newsgroups or websites that > you may know of. > Thanks and kindest regards to everyone! > Dave Sisk > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- > --------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Enhancement Request#: 663419 > > CREATE_ENHANCEMENT > > ENH_COMMENTS: > > Provide a port of the ORACLE8 enterprise data server and other ORACLE > > tools and components for the LINUX operating system. Use ORACLE8 for > > SCO Unix as the starting point, as several companies have already > > gotten the SCO Unix port of ORACLE to run LINUX, after some tweaking > > and customization of the O/S. > > END_ENH_COMMENTS > > HEADLINE: Linux port of ORACLE8 > > SEVERITY: 2 > > PLATFORM_SPECIFIC: N > > COMPONENT: RDBMS > > COMPONENT_VERSION: 8.0 > > RDBMS_VERSION: 8.0 > > BUSINESS_NEED: > > As you may already know, the LINUX operating system is gaining > > popularity very quickly. LINUX (one of the many flavors of unix) is > > available for Intel x86 platforms, PowerPC platforms, Sun SPARC > > platforms, Digital Alpha platforms, etc. LINUX is also reportedly one > > of the top 5 O/S's used for commercial web-servers and ISP's. Leading > > industry journals and analysts are indicating that LINUX has found > > it's way into Corporate computing because of it's functionality, > > stability, inexpensiveness, peformance, and portability over several > > hardware platforms. Industry journals are predicting that LINUX will > > begin to battle with WindowsNT for marketshare over the next several > > years. LINUX will provide 64-bit operation on the upcoming Intel > > Merced processor long before WindowsNT. Finally, there is rumor of an > > initiative underway to enhance LINUX to natively support the NUMA > > specification (shared-disk and shared-memory clustering across nodes) > > on Intel platforms, thus allowing it tremendous scaleability and entry > > into competition with other enterprise-level operating systems. > > Providing an Oracle8 port for LINUX will not only help improve the O/S > > popularity, it will provide another low-cost, multi-hardware platform > > on which to run Oracle products and more marketshare for Oracle > > Corporation. > > BASE_BUG: > > STOP To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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