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Date:      Thu, 11 Nov 1999 11:45:01 +0300
From:      Dmitry Filatkin <fil@artelecom.ru>
To:        freebsd-database@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Commercial Database Use?
Message-ID:  <382A820D.6077C067@artelecom.ru>
References:  <4.2.0.58.19991110220244.00ac2e40@email.eden.rutgers.edu>

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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.

I installing Oracle805/Linux libs and successful compiling client
software for connection to Oracle805/Spark.
Need 3.3-RELEASE version of FBSD, installed rpm.
Remove all files from /compat/linux and install linux RPMs.
Brand linux binaries. Make user/group for oracle with linux shell and
shell variables.
Run oracle installer from xterm - for keys compatible.
Install.

I use crosscompiled Apache+PHP+OCI8 for users support (internet
providing)
and test sources from Oracle.

Test page with simple command - http://www.atnet.ru/test/oraphp-on-fbsd/
List of need RPMs and ugly setup script -
ftp://ftp.atnet.ru/pub/OS/linux/RPMS/

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fil


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