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

[Bob Schmertz]

On Sat, 2003-02-08 at 18:53, Vanco, Donald wrote:
> 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.

"Oracle will be supported"... would that be the current version or a new
for-RHAS3 version?  I know you don't work for Oracle, so wild
speculation is welcome...

> 
> 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.

Red Hat has so far never released anything for PowerPC... have you heard
any rumors?  I'd bet they'd make it for Sparc before they do PPC.

> 
> 
> 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.

I've already done that, but once you do that your OS is no longer a
certified Advanced Server, and if you need support from Oracle and they
find out you're not running a RHAS kernel provided/compiled by Red
Hat... well, you can guess the rest.

> 
> 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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Bob Schmertz