I completely agree on the Oracle aspect. Im in charge of a R&D lab for developers that generally work in Oracle 9i & 10g (DB & app server)on AIX in production. They all prefer Oracle on linux, becuse it seems to work so much better. Installing on AIX can really suck if it doesnt work right the first time too. I came to CentOS the last time I built a WBEL3.1 box for a quick Oracle test. When I went to get it up to date, it seemed like it hadnt been updated in a while and was taking forever to pull the packages. I found that a lot of the people that were working on it had moved over to CentOS. You can install Oracle on about any linux you want, but they work very closely with RedHat (SuSE too) to make RHEL work exactly how they need it for Oracle, and CentOS brings all that with it. Yes, buy the RH support for production, but for dev/test/stress, CentOS works great. this guy has great how-to's for installing: http://www.puschitz.com/OracleOnLinux.shtml
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I completely agree on the Oracle aspect. Im in charge of a R&D lab for developers that generally work in Oracle 9i & 10g (DB & app server)on AIX in production. They all prefer Oracle on linux, becuse it seems to work so much better. Installing on AIX can really suck if it doesnt work right the first time too.
I came to CentOS the last time I built a WBEL3.1 box for a quick Oracle test. When I went to get it up to date, it seemed like it hadnt been updated in a while and was taking forever to pull the packages. I found that a lot of the people that were working on it had moved over to CentOS.
You can install Oracle on about any linux you want, but they work very closely with RedHat (SuSE too) to make RHEL work exactly how they need it for Oracle, and CentOS brings all that with it.
Yes, buy the RH support for production, but for dev/test/stress, CentOS works great.
this guy has great how-to's for installing:
http://www.puschitz.com/OracleOnLinux.shtml
i was thinking the same thing.
im no mathmotologist, but 4.1 seems 8 steps BELOW 4.9 to me.