On Sun, 4 Dec 2005, J.C. Roberts wrote:
On Sun, 4 Dec 2005 21:57:15 -0700, Josh Tolley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
If someone has a viable need of Oracle products, it's in their best
interest to get it running on OpenBSD.
Why?
Going off into unsupported territory where there's probably 10 other
shops in the world doing the same thing (i.e. lack of community) will mean
chasing down lots and lots of issues yourself with very few resources to
turn to.
Sure, you're right that many people are primarily interested in getting
supposed "support" from Oracle but forcibly drop kicking Oracle software
onto OpenBSD will most likely allow you to find a lot of Oracle bugs.
Or a lot of Linux emulation bugs. Or bugs in the linux lib
packages triggered by the kernel emulation.
Linux emulation + non-native libs + lack of documented issues = lots of
variables that are going to make it a royal pain to troubleshoot problems.
If you've got enough $ for Oracle Inc to think you're important, they
might actually consider fixing the bugs you report.
If you've got that much cash to persuade them to do that, you
might as well go whole-hog and have them do a native port. And if you
have that much cash, you're probably looking at running Oracle on
$very_large_hardware that OpenBSD doesn't support yet.
If Oracle software is too broken to run properly on OpenBSD and Oracle
refuses to fix their bugs (i.e. failure to actually "support" their
products), then you might want to reconsider your choice of software to
see if there are other alternatives available.
If there's no native port, there is no running properly, period.
Even if their software was buggy, how can Oracle be reasonably expected to
fix bugs on a system that is more or less rigged with the software
equivalent of duct tape and baling wire?
That being said, if OpenBSD is a requirement, then change the database to
something nice and not so bloated like PostGres. Then at least it'll
native compile.
--
Signing off,
Joseph C. Bender
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"Does the government fear us? Or do we fear the government? When the
people fear the government, tyranny has found victory. The federal
government is our servant, not our master." ---Thomas Jefferson
