[wplug] Oracle on RH 8 (was: Entertaining)

J Aaron Farr jaaronfarr at yahoo.com
Sat Feb 8 14:55:49 EST 2003


--- Bob Schmertz <rschmertz at speakeasy.net> wrote:
> On Fri, 2003-02-07 at 12:50, redtoade wrote:
> 
> > 8.0 is a dream.  I have no idea what people are
> > talking about when they consider it to be buggy.
> 
> Has anybody here tried to run any Oracle app -- or any binary-only C++
> app that provides shared libraries -- on Red Hat 8.0?  From what I hear
> about gcc 3.x, there is a binary incompatibility when you try to mix
> shared object libraries from gcc3 with executables from 2.9x or vice
> versa.  This wouldn't be Red Hat's fault, as every distribution will
> have to deal with this compatibility glitch at some point, if they
> haven't done so already.  But it may be a disincentive for many to go to
> 8.0.
> 
> -- 
> Cheers,
> Bob Schmertz

If you're putting up the cash for an actual Oracle instance then your probably
want to go with Red Hat's Advanced Server which will work with Oracle and all
the other big guns.  Also, from what I understand SuSE has pretty good Oracle
support.

jaaron

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