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The Real Truth About Oracle's 'New' Kernel
An anonymous reader writes "Yesterday at OpenWorld, Oracle announced a 'new' Enterprise kernel for its so-called Unbreakable Linux. What's the real truth? The company is simply sticking a 2.6.32-based kernel on top of its re-branded Red Hat Enterprise Linux clone and trying to spin it as a new and innovative development."
I can study inside out postgres on my own -or- I can pay for formation -or- I can pay external expertise
No argument there.
you can't with oracle. you need trainig, you need schools or you need external expertise, no manuals provided with the software help you in administering an advanced oracle configuration
I'm going to forward this to several of my Oracle-inclined colleagues so that they chuckle a little. That there are no manuals or reading material available for free (online both inside and outside of Oracle's sources) with which to study, nor material that you get when you pay for technical support SHOULD YOU CHOOSE TO DO SO, that's just unsubstantiated baloney.
but you don't want to see the differences between the constraints for the software utilizations so meh.
There are differences, but they aren't as constrained and as money-bleeding as you would like them to be as you build your strawmen.
And I'm not even an Oracle guy (though I've worked with Oracle installations.) I'll use (and I've used) Postgres, MySQL, even jdbm and non-relational database systems and desktop databases (FoxPro, Clipper, DBase) in the old days. Both in small and large systems.
I would not use Oracle for many situations at all.
But I don't work by drinking rhetorical kool aid. I don't exaggerate the difficulties so that I can build a fictitious soap box from which to praise my favorite open source database system.
Everything you keep saying, in particular about the inability to study for an Oracle certification without free sources (or working with it as if it were an herculean effort) is absolute bull. One has to wonder the technical abilities or lack thereof if these efforts truly appear herculean.
As Jon Stewart told Tucker Carlson in Crossfire. "No. No. I'm not going to be your monkey." I don't see your imaginary differences; kool aid does not induce me to see what does not exist.