From owner-freebsd-database Thu Nov 11 0:45:44 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-database@freebsd.org Received: from Tronix.artelecom.ru (Tronix.artelecom.ru [213.24.60.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 52ADC14CB4 for ; Thu, 11 Nov 1999 00:45:38 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from fil@artelecom.ru) Received: from artelecom.ru (eye.artelecom.ru [213.24.60.39]) by Tronix.artelecom.ru (8.9.2-MVC/8.9.3) with ESMTP id LAA02520 for ; Thu, 11 Nov 1999 11:45:37 +0300 (MSK) Message-ID: <382A820D.6077C067@artelecom.ru> Date: Thu, 11 Nov 1999 11:45:01 +0300 From: Dmitry Filatkin X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (WinNT; I) X-Accept-Language: ru MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-database@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Commercial Database Use? References: <4.2.0.58.19991110220244.00ac2e40@email.eden.rutgers.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=koi8-r Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-database@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk 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/ -- fil To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-database" in the body of the message