Oracle Corp has released the second version of its Database 10g product, but in a move that highlight’s Linux’s ascendancy on the server, this version will be initially available only on Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
Oracle Corp has released the second version of its Database 10g product, but in a move that highlight’s Linux’s ascendancy on the server, this version will be initially available only on Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
This is really great news!!!,lets face it you cant compete with Microsoft on their own platform, there will always be undocumented stuff that gives them the edge.
By refocusing on a platform that is ‘open’, the quality of your code is determined by you, and no one else. If more companies follow this path, then they will stand a much better chance of keeping Microsoft at Bay!!!!!!
I am dying to see how this plays out as if this works i can envision some really great apps coming to linux.
or better yet ORACLE LINUX!!!!!!!
“I am dying to see how this plays out as if this works i can envision some really great apps coming to linux.
or better yet ORACLE LINUX!!!!!!!”
Not sure what you mean? How will this allow some great apps to be coming from linux. Oracle can run on linux and the app can still be written on windows using .net or it could be written with qt on linux doesn’t matter. Plus they have had all releases run on linux for quite some time now. All oracle is doing is putting out to linux first. The other os releases will follow in due time.
You are very cool!
After reading the Article I’m surprised to find out that “only redhat” doesn’t just mean only linux distro. Its not even on Windows yet. Thats a pretty big thing isn’t it with something as huge as Oracle?
I’ve been hoping for a while now that Linux would take off and get applications either before or same time as windows. Linux is everything I want in an OS as far as design/open/modular if only the whole tech industry would get behind it so we could attack problems better and faster. But right now it seems like RedHat/Novell/IBM are doing to brunt of the R&D work and just aren’t big enough to take care of everything.
Oracle is one of the most bloated pieces of software I have ever used. I want to pull my hair out every time I have to do anything with it.
I’m willing to bet the Java rewrite has something to do with that. Flame on folks.
I’m willing to bet the Java rewrite has something to do with that. Flame on folks.
The Java re-write has nothing to do with it. Oracle has always consumed ridiculous amounts of memory and resources. Just look at what MySQL and Postgres do, and ask yourself what’s different with Oracle.
At the moment I’ve been mainly using 8i and 9i and they are ridiculous enough as it is, let alone what Oracle has done with 10g.
oracle is doing what I would do, If they can get 100 or 200 people to buy oracle on linux they are taking away $$$ from sun, hpux, and ibm. IBM especially since db2 is a major competitor.
http://www.tpc.org/
For critical apps you are going to use oracle or db2 so you have someone to scream at when the database dies. Oracle desperately needs to get into the apps market, it is only a matter of time before the open source databases catch up to oracle in terms of speed and performance (5 to 10 years). There are plenty of websites that are running just fine on linux, apache, mysql, php. No need to spend millions to get an oracle database.
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I don’t see Oracle opensourcing their database? Surely the GPL Brigade must be totally against Oracle running on any form of Linux. I mean how can they even contemplate linking against gpl’ed, or even lgpled binaries for their database.
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Right, so that was the troll part. Now the realistic part – why the double standards on Oracle running a proprietarty software product, with no access available to their source on Linux verus the age old Java is not opensource debate. It really does strike me as a case of selective attack on the part of the GNU Linux zealots – or IBM sheep as they are otherwise known.
I’m constantly amazed that people don’t seem to be able to make a point without calling others names. Why you felt the urge to name people you obviously disagree with zealots and sheep is beyond, as is why people modded you up.
Anyway, I’m not aware that Oracle is a programming language used to write free software, so your comparison is totally flawed. The main problem some people have with Java not being free software is that it essentially can’t be used to write free software (as this software then depends on non-free software), yet there is free software depending on it.
Wether you see this as a problem or not is of course up for debate, but making flawed comparisons and calling people names sure is only a bad substitute for such a debate and it’s of course totally off topic here anyway.
Their bond seems to be real close and this RHEL first thing is just annother case. Look at the last paragraph of this page and tell me what you think. I think it is incredible: https://www.redhat.com/solutions/partners/oracle/