AW:[ILUG] Linux Distro For Oracle 10g

[p.slabiak at linux-services.org]

>Hi,
>
>Without starting a flame war I would like some advice on setting up Oracle 
>10g on Linux.
>
>I currently have an Oracle 10g cluster set up on 2 Redhat AS machines 
>running Oracle RAC. I set up the Redhat AS on these, wasn't invloved in choosing the OS.
>
>I need to set up a third database server and would like some advice on 
>what distribution to go with.
>
>Price would not be the deiciding factor.
>
>Oracle recommend Redhat or Suse. I would personally prefere Redhat out of 
>the 2. Any other distributions that are not recommended by Oracle wouldn't 
>be looked on favourably.
>
>There is a major price difference between Redhat AS and ES, I don't think 
>I need AS, but the current RAC servers have AS. Any thoughts on this? Anything 
>missing from ES that I would need.
>
>There is also the Oracle Unbreakable Linux, has anyone used this? Is it 
>worth trying?
>
>Peter
>
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Hi Peter,

i would recommend you SLES 9 or 10 from Suse/Novell.My customer have already good experiences
with this distributions..Unbreakable Oracle is not so known as RedHat or SLES and i do not know this
product (only from websites).

Kind Regards
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Pawel Slabiak 
Linux Services
Systemingenieur
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mail: p.slabiak at linux-services.org

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