The database maker announced on Wednesday the availability of a version of its Adaptive Server Enterprise (ASE) database for Linux. David Jacobson, a marketing director at Sybase, said the database was produced for customers who want to run a test pilot of a commercial database on a Linux box.
Sybase releases free database for Linux
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I installed ASE, but didn’t manage to run it.
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It’s free as in beer, nothing to see here.
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you have to adjust your shmax as documented in the Pre-installation instructions here:
http://sybooks.sybase.com/onlinebooks/group-as/asp1251e/installlnx/…
or if you couldn’t be bothered reading:
“To check the current shared memory size, enter:
# /sbin/sysctl kernel.shmmax
To adjust the shared memory size:
# /sbin/sysctl -w kernel.shmmax=nnn
where nnn is the new size in bytes (at least 64MB which is 67108864 bytes).
To guarantee that this value is applied every time the system is started, add the above line to your /etc/rc.d/rc.local file. On SuSE systems, the file that needs to be edited to apply this change after each start is /etc/init.d/boot.local.”
Note that this is for ASE 12.5.2 for Linux and i’m assuming that this new freebie has the same requirements.
It runs beautifully even on my older hardware.
cheers
peter
It’s free as in beer, nothing to see here.
Hopefully there will be more people who are okay with free-as-in-beer and commercial software. Not even Linus himself is against this.
Closed-source and commercial software do not reduce the value of Linux.
Hopefully there will be more people who are okay with free-as-in-beer and commercial software. Not even Linus himself is against this.
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linus has always said that he values Free software better than this one.
I hope you get banned from OSNews. All you do is post off-topic about Linux in every single thread.
I like Sybase, always have.
Always found it easier than Oracle.
Made a career choice and went with Oracle, but still cannot bring myself to say anything bad about Sybase.
Programming stored procedures is easy, T-SQL is powerful,
managing storage devices is easy, backup and restore also.
Sybase Replication Server used to stink (back in 1998 anyways), maybe it’s more stable now.
PowerBuilder development tools are ‘good enough’ for most jobs.