Is there a Linux Client of Oracle
Joel Garry
On Wed, 17 Jun 1998 00:00:38 GMT, Kevin P. Fleming <kfle...@access-laserpress.com> wrote:
>Joel Garry wrote:
>>
>> On Tue, 16 Jun 1998 05:37:46 GMT, Dong Baohua <dba...@usa.net> wrote:
>> >Sybase port its client to Linux, and MSSQL Server works well with
>> >Sybase Client for linux, why not Oracle port its client to Linux?
>>
>> Because Larry Ellison doesn't read Infoworld, where people like a senior
>> manager from Boeing say "we would use Linux if we could get versions of
>> Oracle that run on it." (June 8, 1998 p. 102).
>>
>> Stupid stupid stupid.
>
>But instead they just use Solaris and/or Windows NT, so this doesn't
>affect Oracle negatively at all. There's no financial reason for Oracle
>to produce a Linux version of the Oracle server or client software, and
>the support hassles would be even more of a nightmare than supporting
>the NT platform.
But they do have budgets to answer for. At places like Boingy it could mean
1000 Solaris at a $1000 a pop (or whatever). And there _is_ a financial reason,
as there may be a number of Linux/Postgres|SQLServer|whatever that they
would like to standardize to Oracle, but can't, 'cause Oracle doesn't want
their money apparently. Maybe the fact that Senior Managers at very large
companies can mean a large market will sink in now that even Infoworld is
noticing Linux. 10,000 developers popping, say $100 for Oracle may be worth
it for the publicity and good will if nothing else.
I can't believe that support would be worse than NT. Any unix has less
insulation between what is happening and the user than NT, and Linux is
better than most unix in that respect. Crossover from other unix (and perhaps
the new grads) is certainly easier than to NT. The only "nightmare" would
come from modified OS's, and Oracle really could be better at differentiating
when it has a problem vs. the OS. Of course, this isn't much of a problem
since Oracle takes over a lot of OS functions anyways. Oracle could simply
say they will only support on certain unmodified linux versions, although that
would be a copout.
>
>>
>> BTW, comp.databases.oracle has been superceded by comp.databases.oracle.misc.
>>
>> jg
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