[GLLUG] Converting Oracle DB to Linux

[Edward Glowacki]

On Thu, 2002-04-04 at 14:05, Dean Roman wrote:
> The CEO of your company has a 19-year-old child in college. This child
has been extolling the virtues of Linux (it is free, fast, and works on
less powerful computers). Your CEO sees a chance to save money and use
those 486 computers that are just sitting in storage. You have been
asked to give a presentation on what it would take to move your
company's database to Linux.

Apparently this assignment hasn't been updated in a while... Run Oracle
on a 486?!?!?  Egad, the pain!!!

On a serious note, technically getting Oracle to run on Linux is
probably the easy part.  The hard part would be to justify the staff
needed to maintain the Linux server and the Oracle install, especially
in an all-NT shop.  So you might save some cash in hardware, but it
costs you $100,000/year in salary and benefits to have someone on staff
who can run the Linux server...

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