is linux ready for databases ? (Ziff Davis article on Oracle and Linux)

[Gregory S. Williamson]

Perhaps a subject line would help ...

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One of our sysads sent this link ... wondering if there is any comment on it from the world of actual users of linux and a database.

<http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=1738&ncid=738&e=9&u=/zd/20030825/tc_zd/55311>

Greg Williamson
DBA GlobeXplorer LLC

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[Ron Johnson]

On Tue, 2003-08-26 at 08:47, Mike Mascari wrote:

Gregory S. Williamson wrote:

One of our sysads sent this link ... wondering if there
is any comment on it from the world of actual users
of linux and a database.

<http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=1738&ncid=738&e=9&u=/zd/20030825/tc_zd/55311>

I found the following paragraph humorous:

"A key component that needs further development is the threading model
used by the system kernel, Binstock said. Multithreading is crucial to
running an enterprise database. Without it, a database would have to
handle every data query as it comes in, keeping all other queries
waiting in queue, since the system would be incapable of parallel
processing."

Absolutely. Multi-threaded OSs are a lot younger than enterprise-
level multi-user databases...

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