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Are There Large RDBMS Using Linux?

Posted by Hemos on from the big-honking-databases dept.

Jason Perlow of Linux Magazine writes:" With all of the recent computer press coverage of Amazon and Intel converting their web servers and other front end application servers to Linux, many of these stories neglect to mention that the back end systems these companies use still rely on commercial Unixes like Solaris, AIX and HPUX to host their RDBMSes (Oracle, DB2, Sybase, Informix) for their mission critical transactional applications and data mining. Are there any companies out there actively using Linux to host a mission-critical RDBMS ? or looking to replace UNIX with Linux for this purpose?"

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  1. Oh deary me by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    > Are There Large RDBMS Using Linux?

    Why on earth would anyone want to use Linux for something as critical as that?

    *boggle*

    2.4 .... Stable .... HAHAHAHHAHHAHAHHAH!

  2. search me by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    You mean other than Google? :-) Well, I guess that isn't a large RDBMS per your definition.

  3. Re:Oracle's on Linux... by SkepTech · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Hell, I wouldn't want to run Linux on my SparcStation 10. It's got two 24 bit (cgthirteen) framebuffers, after all! Why would anybody run Linux on anything but generic low-end hardware or the 'bottom-of-the-line' mundane version of any Sun hardware?