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

[Vanco, Donald]

At the risk of again asserting myself...

Oracle is not supported on RH 8.0, so there's not much point in discussing
the functionality.  That being said - you can run mutliple versions of
libraries and provide functionality for (some apps).  Oracle does quite a
bit of re-linking, so this might not be the case.

J. Aaron made a better point with his comment re: RH AS and SuSE - that's
all current & future versions of Oracle are going to be supported on.

A far as what the next release of Advanced Server will be based on (3.1 -
due mid/late summer) I would be astounded to see it _not_ come out based on
3.x.  While I don't know a whole lot aboot it yet, I do know among it's many
new features will be a clustered filesystem.

You can rest assured that Oracle will be supported at release time.

Red Hat is also currently baking Advanced Workstation (IA-32 only) and
Advanced Server ES (IA-32 only) which will be aimed at the "network edge"
device - it has no clustering capability as AS does.

The coming RH AS 3.1 will support IA-32 and IA-64, and I am really hoping
PowerPC as well.


The product that is RH8.0 today is heading for support / sales as a desktop
only product.  Don't expect to see a lot of Enterprise class apps being
supported on it.

Bob - you can recompile the kernel even in Advanced Server - so there
shouldn't be any reason you can't get what you need working unless it's
totally fringe or only part of the development kernel.

Don

-----Original Message-----
From: Bob Schmertz
To: wplug at wplug.org
Sent: 2/8/03 5:32 PM
Subject: Re: [wplug] Oracle on RH 8 (was: Entertaining)

On Sat, 2003-02-08 at 14:55, J Aaron Farr wrote:
> 
> --- 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.
> 

Actually, what we're running on Linux are instances of Oracle
Application Server, and custom-made Oracle clients that need the Oracle
libraries.  We also need some features of the Kernel not found in the
version that RHAS ships with, so we're already having difficulty meeting
that option.  I was just wondering what would happen if the next version
of RHAS was based on gcc 3.x.; would the Oracle libraries stop working?

-- 
Cheers,
Bob Schmertz
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