Date: Thu, 11 Nov 1999 11:12:57 -0800 From: John S Flowers <jflowers@hiverworld.com> To: Carroll Kong <damascus@eden.rutgers.edu>, freebsd-database@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Commercial Database Use? Message-ID: <382B1539.6188AF73@hiverworld.com> References: <4.2.0.58.19991110220244.00ac2e40@email.eden.rutgers.edu>
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Nothing against FreeBSD personally, but -- having used the Linux (and other) versions of Oracle, I'd stick with Oracle on Solaris. Our company is a 100% FreeBSD & OpenBSD shop. It's essentially all we run, with a few server (mostly database) exceptions. If I were you, I'd put Oracle on Solaris and add the Veritas FileSystem (vxfs) and the Veritas Oracle Accelerator. You'll get better performance and reliability than you could ever imagine with other OSs. Also, it pains me to say this, as I'm a huge fan of *BSD, but Oracle on Solaris just works. In the long run, I'd rather administer Solaris on one system that spend hours a week trying to figure out why my SEM setting is causing memory corruption on *BSD. Just my opinion, having done this a 1/2 dozen times or so. -- John S Flowers <jflowers@hiverworld.com> Chief Technology Officer http://www.hiverworld.com Hiverworld, Inc. Enterprise Network Security Network Forensics, Intrusion Detection and Risk Assessment Carroll Kong wrote: > > Hi. I have been using FreeBSD for quite some time and I feel it is a > great OS. Now I am put into a position where I will lead the system design > for a startup company. I want to use FreeBSD, but my employers are adamant > at using Oracle. Any idea when Oracle will be released? And even so, is > Oracle for FreeBSD going to be robust enough to handle the load? I cannot > give out too many details due to an NDA (I am really sorry), but they > assure me we will reach large loads. (estimate load of a medium sized > company with a lot of database access / web accesses). So relatively > complex queries, and a good number of them. > I have deeply considered solaris + oracle instead, but I have a strong > desire and trust in FreeBSD. Does anyone have any advice they can give me > on this? Thanks deeply in advance. > > -Carroll Kong > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-database" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-database" in the body of the message
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