On Oracles commitment to Linux
Oracle prides itself on its strong support and commitment to Linux. On a webpage at Oracle’s site entitled Oracle’s Technical Contributions to Linux” Oracle waxes eloquently on Oracle’s support,...
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Happy Birthday and thank you to John Troyer of VMware
Among the VMware communities, I’m a bit of an outsider – I come from a career background of Oracle and am one of the few Oracle DBAs. Sure, there are a number of people who might manage Oracle...
View ArticleWhat Linux distribution should you use for Oracle virtualized on VMware
Recently Tim Hall of Oracle-Base fame wrote an article “Which Linux do you pick for Oracle Installations?” which addresses Oracle on non-virtualized Linux. Tim’s article is excellent but doesn’t take...
View ArticleOracle versus RedHat and VMware
As I wrote earlier, there are many things to consider about when deciding what distribution is best for your environment when running Oracle under VMware. Over the past couple of years there’s been a...
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Oracle responds to RedHat obfuscation of kernel patches in RHEL 6
As I wrote earlier, starting with RHEL 6, RedHat stopped providing the source of a vanilla kernel and all their patches in different packages and now provides this all in one large tarball. According...
View ArticleOracle releases Java 7 with odd restrictions
Oracle releases Java 7 today, but with restrictions that could greatly inhibit it’s adoption. [update: Since this blog post being published, I've received a comment from Henrik Stahl who is the Sr....
View ArticleOracle to update Java 7 planned supported system configurations
[Please see my latest blog update on this issue] A few hours after my last post regarding Oracle explicitly not supporting Java 7 if run on an Oracle VM 2.X, VMware or Microsoft Hypervisor, I received...
View ArticleOracle Java 7 supported platforms updated but still no VMware or Microsoft...
As I’ve blogged about initially Oracle releases Java 7 with odd restrictions and then followed up with Oracle to update Java 7 planned supported system configurations, Henrik Stahl of Oracle said the...
View ArticleOracle Exadata Database Exalogic Elastic Cloud and why I am not interested
In the last few months, there’s been a big push by Oracle to talk to customers like me about the Exadata Database machine and the Exalogic Elastic Cloud machine. From talking with other DBAs and...
View ArticleCaveat Emptor of Oracle Standard Edition 2
On September 1st, Oracle discontinued Oracle Standard Edition (Oracle SE) and Oracle Standard Edition One (Oracle SE1) and replaced them with Oracle Standard Edition Two (Oracle SE2). Oracle SE and...
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