[NTLUG:Discuss] Oracle on Intel

[Fred James]

Wayne Walker wrote:

>Fred,
>
>Like Bob said.  yes, you can run Oracle onm Fedcora, BUT Oracle is
>finnickier than any cat that ever lived.  if you are doing anything
>other than playing with Oracle as a mental exercise, run it on RHEL (and
>pay RedHat for the work they've put into it) or use CentOS.
>
>Trying to run Oracle on Fedora for anything important will cause you
>much pain and agony for no real gain.
>
>OR
>
>use MySQL with any distro.  MySQL "just works".  :)
>
>Wayne <RHEL/CentOS/MySQL junkie>
>
>On Thu, Mar 01, 2007 at 03:56:57PM -0600, Bob Netherton wrote:
>  
>
>>On Thu, 2007-03-01 at 15:44 -0600, Fred James wrote:
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>>>All
>>>I know one can run Oracle (supported) on RedHat ... can one run Oracle 
>>>on Fedora?  Any experience on this?
>>>      
>>>
>>You certainly could.  I've done it for short periods, nothing going
>>into anything looking like production. I would recommend you choose
>>one over the other.  If Oracle is important then go with RHEL
>>(and pay your dues) or go with CentOS.   If Oracle less important
>>than Fedora go with MySQL or Postgres.
>>
>>
>>
>>Bob
>>    
>>
The project so far is entirely testing - just considering options.  If 
the project were to move to anything beyond testing, the corporation 
would not allow me to run "unsupported" even if I wanted to, which I 
don't.  But that leads to the second question - if you have run Oracle 
on both Fedora and REL.  If the testing proved good on Fedora, then the 
whole thing could be easily translated to REL?  I suppose that seems a 
silly or obvious questions, but silly and obvious have been know to have 
teeth.  Thank you in advance for any help you may be able to offer.
Regards
Fred James

PS:   Oracle is the only option in this particular case.  What is up for 
grabs, in a limited sort of way, is the hardware and OS.