Hey Oracle, Why Not Ubuntu?

OSS_ilation writes "While much has been said about Novell or Red Hat as potential targets for Oracle this week, there are some in the Linux community who believe a different distro might deserve the attention of Larry Ellison. That distribution is Ubuntu, and analysts like Burton Group's Richard Monson-Haefel believed that it would be a better fit for Oracle, which is looking only for an OS and not for any of the baggage associated with Novell, like Netware. Ubuntu, with its huge community base and version 6.06 on the way, could be the perfect fit, he said."

Comments

Who are these idiots

[Anonymous Coward]

That think they need to "buy" a Linux distro. I would suggest that Oracle buy Hurd. I bet they can get that one for cheap. RMS could probably use the cash.

Ubuntu & Oracle -- two different universes

[stefanlasiewski]

Oracle and Ubuntu are two completely different universes. Oracle products are designed for high-availability enterprise applications. The Database and the Database price tag is overkill for most smaller applications.

Ubuntu is a cutting edge Linux distro with a cute, fun desktop with great installer/maintenance applications. Ubuntu can install MySQL in a few minutes. Not sure I would trust it for any sort of high- availability application. Debian Stable, RedHat Enterprise, Suse Enterprise & Solaris would be a wiser choice.

Oracle:

• Installation require a DBA
• Installs in 8 hours, after 4 tries.
• Oracle Installer crashes several times because you forgot to change kernel.foo_bar_strings from '0' to '100000' in /etc/sysctl.conf . You now need to uninstall all of the files by hand and start from scratch.
• It crashes a second time because you forgot to install GCC_2.9.6_legacy_library , and didn't do 'cat "RedHat Enterprise AS" > /etc/sysconfig/kernel/version'. You now need to uninstall all of the files by hand and start from scratch
• Once installed, Oracle can handle 10,000 customers a second on a 40-million row table

Ubuntu:

• Even your grandparents can install it
• Installs in 10 minutes.
  
• Recognized my video card & sound card out of the box.
  
• MySQL & PostgreSQL are installed and running, out of the box.
  
• The host freezes up after the first 5000 queries ;)
  

Re:Ubuntu & Oracle -- two different universes

[wtansill]

It all looked good except that line to me. You need a *, I'll add it for you. Once installed, Oracle can handle 10,000 customers a second on a 40-million row table*

*assuming you have the obligatory DBA who earns 6 figures to optimize your tables twice a week.

unfortunately for me, the company I work for does not. And let me tell you, oracle is a complete dog if you don't have a DBA doing the proper optimizations.

Oh come on! Even MS Access is a dog if you don;t tune it properly! Sheesh!

Larry, I recommend Uganda

[BrentRJones]

seriously, take a long vacation where your money will go far

Re:Ubuntu?

[phy_si_kal]

Now that you failed to buy MySQL, try debian - it's easier.

Re:Targeted towards 'n00bs'? Hardly.

[Poppler]

Shhhhhhh you're going to lose your street cred with the linux elite. User friendliness is for the weak, didn't you know?

Just change the theme to "simple", get rid of the boot splash and other Ubuntu artwork, and tell everyone you're running Debian unstable. Then you can still hang out with the cool people ;)