For this first entry I would like to take the time to give an overview of what I would like to discuss going forward. This blogging thing is actually quite an interesting vehicle. Often we end up talking to the press or have press releases in order to broadcast a message to the world. The drawback there is that it generally has to be "big news" for it to get out so we don't have an easy way to present small topics or some interesting information that does not warrant a full paper to be written.
I would like to discuss questions that came up at customer visits, provide feedback on comments that come from reactions to my postings, and provide some hints and tips on architectures, configurations, and technologies. My hope is that we can have both technical entries and some higher-level type of conversations. Feel free to ask anything, and we will do our best to respond.
As many of you know, Oracle has been doing a whole lot on Linux over the last few years--all our products have been ported, but we didn't stop there. The Unbreakable Linux campaign has been a huge success in helping the adoption of Linux in the corporate world, and a lot of our focus has been on the OS itself, not just our products.
We spend a huge effort on testing; across the company thousands of systems run Linux in test or production environments. The hosted business (On Demand) deploys pretty much every server on Linux and so on. It is literally everywhere. There is no doubt that we will continue this and much more going forward. Many good things to come--stay tuned, this is just the beginning.
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I am running Oracle on Linux for development and I am quite curious about Oracle plans for linux platform.
Posted by Andrei Lopatenko | February 21, 2006 12:22 PM
Posted on February 21, 2006 12:22
We are getting ready (the project just started) to move our 11.5.10 apps tier to Linux (RHEL) as the first step in what we hope will be a completely Linux environment. I am also doing a 10g report server project on Linux. Good luck to you in all your Linux endeavors.
Posted by Allan Nelson | February 24, 2006 12:20 PM
Posted on February 24, 2006 12:20
Do you plan to have one product for Linux or do plan to have a few product compatible with Linux like IBM does (DB2 and Cloudscape-Derby)?
Posted by Andrei Lopatenko | February 27, 2006 12:04 PM
Posted on February 27, 2006 12:04
Wim:
I'm wondering when OCFS2 will be certified for use by a 64-bit 10gR2 database on SLES9. Any predictions?
--A RAC User
Posted by Anonymous Coward | March 21, 2006 1:11 PM
Posted on March 21, 2006 13:11
Wim! All is quiet on your blog. How about starting us off with a rousing commentary of the merits of OCFS2?
Posted by Neil Thannisch | March 21, 2006 2:52 PM
Posted on March 21, 2006 14:52
Hello to everybody, i get a question, it's about install of oracle 9i on redhat 9. I still can't install it, i first install java machine, setup the var of memory and swap memory , and finally execute oracle and it run a windows. then the windows do not run anymore. I hope your help. okey see you later.
Posted by Marcelo Torres | April 3, 2006 4:29 PM
Posted on April 3, 2006 16:29
Well we have multiple products available today on Linux. Pretty much every Oracle product has been ported to Linux. If you are talking about databases, well we now have TimesTen, we have BerkeleyDB, we have Oracle-Express which is a free trimmed down version of standard oracle, we have the standard oracle database products and there is the Oracle lite product. They are basically all available for Linux and are different products.
Posted by Wim Coekaerts | April 17, 2006 11:44 PM
Posted on April 17, 2006 23:44
on the topic of ocfs2-
we are updating the certify website with the results for x86, the x86-64 and ia64 and other platform certs are in progress. It has been a long time coming but it was important to run as many tests as we can on the product to ensure we have done our due diligence.
Version 2 is more geared towards support for shared oracle home and similar operations. It will be able to handle datafiles, just like ocfs1 did, and it will allow existing 9i/rhel3/sles8 customers to easily move to rhel4 and sles9 given that we did not have an ocfs1 release out there.
For 10g, we do have the ASM storage feature which is a more comprehensive way of managing database data storage. There is no competition between ocfs2 and asm, as some folks tend to discuss. A large set of features in ASM are just not in our filesystem. However the certify matrix will include certification of ocfs2 for data usage for those customers that have a real requirement but the recommendation for storage is ASM. We will fully support ocfs2 just like we did with ocfs1.
this all relates to Linux only. not other operating systems we support or other CFS versions we have for like Windows.
Posted by Wim Coekaerts | April 18, 2006 9:51 PM
Posted on April 18, 2006 21:51
Marcelo - red hat 9 is not a certified/supported release so the oracle installer would not run by default. I suggest you have a look at werner puschitz's webpage :
http://www.puschitz.com/OracleOnLinux.shtml
Posted by Wim Coekaerts | April 18, 2006 9:56 PM
Posted on April 18, 2006 21:56
I happend to come to your blog because I've read your interview about OSDL (http://www.internetnews.com/dev-news/article.php/3614721) mentioned at Slashdot.org. Since you're a representative on the OSDL Technical Board you might be interested in the comment I've made there (http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=189088&cid=15574585). Yet since you are also from Oracle I want draw your attention to another comment I've made (http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=188634&cid=15547020). Especially Oracle could gain a lot not only for Linux but also on any platform if they'd switch their Oracle tools (i.e. setup, enterprise manager, etc) from Java to wxWidgets as I've outlined in wyoGuide. I'm sure many customer complains will simply vanish while the source becomes much easier to support and you win easy installable Oracle tootls for Linux.
O. Wyss
Posted by Otto Wyss | June 21, 2006 5:18 AM
Posted on June 21, 2006 05:18
in general things we publish would also work on centos. yes. their modifications are similar however not everywhere exactly the same. in particular the content of /etc/redhat-release as a file. other than that things should work - I have not looked at all patches centos does- one thing we do, is we do a lot of extra QA on anything we add to ensure nothing breaks. that is part of saying things can be called certified with oracle products.
Posted by Wim Coekaerts | March 25, 2007 2:21 PM
Posted on March 25, 2007 14:21