I am currently running Oracle v8.1.6 on Mandrake 7.1 on a PC under my desk (for the purpose of development and training). If you have a moderately large amount of users (50+), and you want to run the Apps too, I would stay with Sun/Solaris. I work on Oracle Apps in an HP environment with ~250 users and the horsepower of the HP servers is still tested at times. For a production environment using Oracle, nothing beats Sun (HP is a close second). Oracle uses Sun as their foundation platform. All products are released first on Sun, then on NT and HP. The Linux ports are currently third priority. The Oracle development platform is indeed RedHat, but Suse has done some extensive work with Oracle and some of the best technical papers and troubleshooting information come from Suse. They are a good alternative. One word of warning on Redhat, version 7 has caused some significant troubles due to the library versions they have included (and some they did not). There is a lot of discussion in the forums about problems getting Oracle database installed on v7. YMMV Regarding processing capabilities, this requires significant analysis including the number of users present and projected, Internet access load requirements for their Customer Service apps, data warehousing requirements, the number of instances required, and on and on.... There is significant improvement of late in the scalability area due to the new version 9i and the 9iAS (Application Server) with their configurable Cache. You supposedly can scale to multiple servers as load increases by splitting database objects logically and re-configuring the Cache. There is a Very detailed Video presentation on http://technet.oracle.com regarding the architecture, load balancing and distribution capabilities that are possible with the latest versions of the database and iAS. (ALL, I might add are available and certified on Linux as well as Sun, NT and HP.) My bottom line opinion is to stick with Sun. But if your user count is moderate, and you have adequate support from your management, using Oracle Apps on Linux would be very exciting. Look at the technical overviews for an idea on potential configurations and keep us up to date on what you decide. Best of Luck, Donn Shumway dlshumway@earthlink.net ----- Original Message ----- From: "Vishwa Hassan" To: Sent: Wednesday, January 10, 2001 11:31 AM Subject: Oracle in Linux Environment > We are currently considering moving to Intel based platforms (from > SUN/Solaris) running one of the distributions of Linix. This email is to > solicit suggestions on the kind of platform and the distribution. > > We would like to run Oracle Apps and Oracle database on two separate > platforms. I understand the recommended distribution is the RedHat. I > would like to hear comments on the platform required in terms of processing > power and memory and the recommended distribution to run Oracle. > > Further, if a single machine is not sufficient enough in terms of processing > capabilities which performance Linux based clustering software can be used ? > > Would appreciate your feedback particularly from those who have setup > similar environment. > > Vishwa > > > ________________________________________________ > See http://PLUG.phoenix.az.us/navigator-mail.shtml if your mail doesn't post to the list quickly and you use Netscape to write mail. > > Plug-discuss mailing list - Plug-discuss@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >