I like Linux. A lot. I use it at home, and I use it at work. But right now, if I was to choose a platform for a large Oracle database, it would be Solaris, without hesitation.
I'm not saying Linux will never do it, in fact I think it's pretty close, and I look forward to revising my opinion in the not-too-distant future.
Now to the reasons:
1) Hardware stability. I wouldn't want to run a large database on PC hardware. I think Sun's hardware is a more robust platform. And if we're talking *really* large databases, Solaris still scales better at the very high end than Linux.
2) Striping, mirroring, and all things RAID. Sure you can do this with Linux, and it works pretty well, but support's an issue.
I'm not FUD'ing here - if someone can point to an organisation which will provide 24/7 support for a 2.2 Linux kernel (on an SMP machine, with software RAID) today, I'll happily eat my words.
Having vendor-supported 2.2 kernel distribs is going to change this a lot, I think. Having Veritas Volume Manager for Linux would also be fantastic.
Speaking as someone who uses KDE rather than GNOME (for the moment anyway), I'd have to say that you're a bit of a fucking moron, if you'll excuse the language.
Idiots like you should climb back under your bridges and go play with your Windows boxes.
Maybe it's just me, but i think that the programmer should probably try to write his code so that his applications don't cause memory errors. There's no reason any problems with memory overflow should affect the user, given even mildly competent program development.
What an amazing cop-out.
Fact: all non-trivial software contains bugs.
This is true no matter how competent you are. And no matter how bug-free your own code is, you're still at the mercy of possible bugs in:
The compiler
Any user-space libraries you might be using
Any IDE you might be using
So there's no excuse for lacking memory-protection in the kernel. Precisely zero.
And can software be open source if it _isn't_ freeware? If so how would that work? Can you really have something be truly open source if you still have a company that owns it?
Well, one possible alternative is to release a piece of software under 2 licenses, like Troll Tech is doing with Qt. A free license for anyone to use for free software, and a commercial license for those who are developing proprietary software. The commercial license would likely include some kind of support contract.
It seems to me fairly unlikely that software that has been open sourced is probably not going to exist much outside of the underground. Although that may not be a bad thing.
You mean like Apache, BIND, INN, sendmail, Mozilla, Perl, Tcl, gcc and other little underground projects?
GNOME is at 0.99.2, preparing for 1.0. But if you take version numbers seriously, you probably need Windows 2000, cos it's way ahead of both KDE and GNOME.
Latest StarOffice is KDE compliant
What does this mean? (Hint: it isn't built with KDE widgets)
Every GNOME application has a KDE compliant clone
Every KDE application has a GNOME compliant clone.
Several Linux distros are shiping with KDE and some even make KDE a default.
Fair enough. KDE is more developed than GNOME is. No-one disputes that.
QT licensing issue has been resolved ( as far as I know ).
Mostly. Not everyone is happy with the new Qt license (though I don't personally have any major problems with it). It's more biased towards Troll Tech than other open-source licenses might be.
Basically there are 3 KDE compliant WMs and there are AFAIK 3 GNOME compliant WMs
4 GNOME compliant WMs - you forgot Enlightentment.
By the way, I use (and prefer) KDE right now. But I don't believe GNOME is remotely dead, and I do want to see it succeed. Actually, what I really want to see is both KDE & GNOME interoperating via CORBA one day. And both being fully themable so (a) KDE & GNOME apps can be made to look and feel the same, and (b) they'll be able to interoperate - why shouldn't I be able to embed a Gnumeric spreadsheet in a KWord document, and have it all look like a NeXTStep application?
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I like Linux. A lot. I use it at home, and I use it at work. But right now, if I was to choose a platform for a large Oracle database, it would be Solaris, without hesitation.
I'm not saying Linux will never do it, in fact I think it's pretty close, and I look forward to revising my opinion in the not-too-distant future.
Now to the reasons:
1) Hardware stability. I wouldn't want to run a large database on PC hardware. I think Sun's hardware is a more robust platform. And if we're talking *really* large databases, Solaris still scales better at the very high end than Linux.
2) Striping, mirroring, and all things RAID. Sure you can do this with Linux, and it works pretty well, but support's an issue.
I'm not FUD'ing here - if someone can point to an organisation which will provide 24/7 support for a 2.2 Linux kernel (on an SMP machine, with software RAID) today, I'll happily eat my words.
Having vendor-supported 2.2 kernel distribs is going to change this a lot, I think. Having Veritas Volume Manager for Linux would also be fantastic.
But for now, I'd go for Solaris.
Speaking as someone who uses KDE rather than GNOME (for the moment anyway), I'd have to say that you're a bit of a fucking moron, if you'll excuse the language.
Idiots like you should climb back under your bridges and go play with your Windows boxes.
What an amazing cop-out.
Fact: all non-trivial software contains bugs.
This is true no matter how competent you are. And no matter how bug-free your own code is, you're still at the mercy of possible bugs in:
So there's no excuse for lacking memory-protection in the kernel. Precisely zero.
Well, one possible alternative is to release a piece of software under 2 licenses, like Troll Tech is doing with Qt. A free license for anyone to use for free software, and a commercial license for those who are developing proprietary software. The commercial license would likely include some kind of support contract.
It seems to me fairly unlikely that software that has been open sourced is probably not going to exist much outside of the underground. Although that may not be a bad thing.
You mean like Apache, BIND, INN, sendmail, Mozilla, Perl, Tcl, gcc and other little underground projects?
- Where is GNOME's killustrator?
:-) KooBase looks pretty nice.
GYVE
- Where is their KooBase?
Got me there
- Where is their web browser?
Well, I still prefer Netscape to kfm (1.1 might change that...) so that's not really an issue for me.
- Where is their window manager? (just kidding)
And where's the KDE equivalent for the GIMP? (just kidding)
GNOME is at the version .30 KDE is preparing 1.1
GNOME is at 0.99.2, preparing for 1.0. But if you take version numbers seriously, you probably need Windows 2000, cos it's way ahead of both KDE and GNOME.
Latest StarOffice is KDE compliant
What does this mean? (Hint: it isn't built with KDE widgets)
Every GNOME application has a KDE compliant clone
Every KDE application has a GNOME compliant clone.
Several Linux distros are shiping with KDE and some even make KDE a default.
Fair enough. KDE is more developed than GNOME is. No-one disputes that.
QT licensing issue has been resolved ( as far as I know ).
Mostly. Not everyone is happy with the new Qt license (though I don't personally have any major problems with it). It's more biased towards Troll Tech than other open-source licenses might be.
Basically there are 3 KDE compliant WMs and there are AFAIK 3 GNOME compliant WMs
4 GNOME compliant WMs - you forgot Enlightentment.
By the way, I use (and prefer) KDE right now. But I don't believe GNOME is remotely dead, and I do want to see it succeed. Actually, what I really want to see is both KDE & GNOME interoperating via CORBA one day. And both being fully themable so (a) KDE & GNOME apps can be made to look and feel the same, and (b) they'll be able to interoperate - why shouldn't I be able to embed a Gnumeric spreadsheet in a KWord document, and have it all look like a NeXTStep application?
Yeah, where the hell does Microsoft get off stealing Apple's 20-year-old sub-pixel font rendering techniques?
http://www.grc.com/cleartype.htm
If you don't like Scheme scripting (and not everyone does), use the Perl extension instead.
(I don't know why I'm joining this thread, I'm pretty sure you're just a horrible troll who needs to get back under his bridge)