Date: Wed, 23 Oct 1996 12:13:06 -0400 (EDT) From: Mark Mayo <mark@quickweb.com> To: jgrosch@sirius.com Cc: "Serge A. Babkin" <babkin@hq.icb.chel.su>, mrcpu@cdsnet.net, jkh@time.cdrom.com, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Possible Commercial app for FreeBSD. Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.94.961023120413.8326A-100000@vinyl.quickweb.com> In-Reply-To: <199610230533.WAA02024@superior.truenorth.org>
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On Tue, 22 Oct 1996, Josef Grosch wrote: > >> > > >> >Since they displayed a willingness to port to Linux, I was figuring they > >> >may be open to other OS's as well, which isn't going to happen with Oracle > >> >or Sybase and friends. > >> > > >> > >> I have seen the SCO version of Oracle running on FreeBSD. Granted I did'nt > > > >And how it works compared to SCO ? > > > >-SB > > > > I can't really tell. My experence with Oracle on SCO is a 486-100 with 16 > meg of ram running a very badly written application. This was several years > ago when a 486 was a "hot" machine. The one time I did see the SCO version > of Oracle running on FreeBSD was on a 586-100 with 32 meg of ram. The two > co-workers who did get it running were just playing around. They were doing > simple things like creating tables and loading 1000 records & sorting > them. It seemed damn fast but they were just playing around on a much > faster machine. > I've run Oracle (v6 I believe) on FreeBSD and it was quite _decent_. I was working with very large dataset and I wanted to see if Oracle could handle it on "small" hardware - Pentium Pro 200, 256 MB of Ram, UW disks, etc.. I was actually mildy surprised by the FreeBSD performance. Really, the record sizes had to exceed 50-60 million before it dogged out - but to tell you the truth it ran significantly faster on the same hardware running NT (sever 3.51).. Although on NT we were using v7.x.x.x... The bad thing about the NT version was that it was horrifically buggy.. I've heard that the latest release is way better on NT however (they're learnin the win32 API :-)) But all in all, if you want Oracle and don't want to pay for the OS (or just refuse to run anything but FreeBSD) then the SCO Oracle is not bad. Personally, I don't think it's worth it.. Oracle is so bloody expensive the cost of almost any commecial OS is peanuts in comparison. If I needed Oracle, I'd just buy a monster Alpha with DEC UNIX and sit it in a corner with no login accounts, NFS, etc, and say "shut up and answer SQL*Net" :-) cya, -Mark ------------------------------------------- | Mark Mayo mark@quickweb.com | | C-Soft www.quickweb.com | ------------------------------------------- "To iterate is human, to recurse divine." - L. Peter Deutsch > Josef > > -- > Josef Grosch | Laugh while you can, monkey boy ! | FreeBSD 2.1.5 > jgrosch@sirius.com | - John Warfin - | UNIX for the masses >
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