[NTLUG:Discuss] Anyone done ORACLE on LINUX yet?

[Greg E]

Charlie Lindahl wrote:
> 
> All:
> 
> I'm kinda tearing my hair out here. We have the ORACLE 8.0.5
> database for LINUX in-house (it was a *bear* to get it via FTP ...
> ~200Mbytes!).
> 
> Tonite/this morning I attempted an installation on SuSE 6.1 LINUX.
> 
> I got a number of fairly obscure error messages .. I'm sure the
> installation
> failed.
> 
> Question to the group: has *anyone* successfully gotten ORACLE 8.0.5 to
> run under *any* distribution of LINUX? I *could* switch to REDHAT 6.x
> but I *really* like some of the SuSE features (YaST: the installation
> program, along with the X configuration stuff, is really nice).
> 
> Thanks,
> Charlie Lindahl
> clindahl at gte.net
> 


Last I looked, with a $1400 price tag I'd rather go with Sybase if I
were to use a canned DBMS!!!

Greg E