Linux Helping Oracle

Mr. Fahrenheit writes "CNN has a story about how Oracle's effort to port their database to Linux may be helping them to out pace IBM." From the article: "In its biennial survey of the world's largest databases, WinterCorp, a database research and consulting company, reported that Oracle dominated its list of 175 large databases. For the first time, databases running on Linux appeared on WinterCorp's list -- and all of them came from Oracle."

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missing from list

[brenddie]

Oracle dominated its list of 175 large databases. For the first time, databases running on Linux appeared on WinterCorp's list -- and all of them came from Oracle.

You cant ignore other players like sybase. Their database with RAW devides on linux provides very good performance and is very easy to use and set up. But what really surprises me is that DB2 and informix are missing from the list. I cant vouch for DB2 on linux but a well tunned Informix IDS10 instance on linux will beat Oracle anytime. IBM R&D on the optimizer has made DB2 and Informix the best performers.