[wplug] Newbie Questions (Reason)

[Anand Nimbalkar]

Hi,
Thanks a lot for the replies. Someone asked me to be more specific which I 
think I should have been in the first post itself. Anyways the reason for 
asking those ???
I am pretty close to getting my Oracle 9i DBA certification and from what I 
heard it’s nice if a DBA has strong OS (I dont consider Microsoft as a 
strong OS) Server knowledge. Traditionally Oracle DBA’s with Unix knowledge 
have been preferred and now its Linux + Oracle. An enterprise version of 
Oracle does not install on anything other than a Server. I keep reading 
daily that XYZ moved to Linux + Oracle and saved $$$. I know that the basic 
structure of Linux Kernel is the same and different companies are utilizing 
it and building applications and features to make it a complete usable 
operating system. I am interested in knowing which version of Linux are 
companies using to work with Oracle.

A stupid question:
If Linux is free how come RedHat charges 30 + for desktop version  and 1000 
+ for Server?
And if companies are saving $$$ can I conclude that it is actually reduction 
in cost from may be 5000 that MicroSucks I mean SOFT charges to 1000 + that 
Redhat does ?


Hope I made sense.

Thanks

Anand

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