[WBEL-devel] re: 2nd RC coming?

[donavan nelson]

What I was driving at with the "Oracle wasn't a big deal" IMHO is that if you
are using Oracle in a production environment, you probably have already
purchased RHEL.

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Donavan Nelson
4wx Networks
www.4wx.net

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From: Johnny Hughes <mailing-lists@hughesjr.com>
To: "'whitebox-devel@beau.org '" <whitebox-devel@beau.org>
Sent: Tue, 25 Nov 2003 19:51:35 -0600
Subject: RE: [WBEL-devel] re: 2nd RC coming?

> I am using Oracle 9iR2 patchset 3 (9.2.0.4) on WBEL...installed via the
> RHEL instructions here:
> 
> http://www.puschitz.com/InstallingOracle9i.shtml#RunningOracleInstallati
> onOnRHELAS3
>  
> With no major problems .... Here are a couple other references I used:
> 
> http://forums.oracle.com/forums/thread.jsp?forum=135&thread=209334
> 
> https://www.redhat.com/archives/taroon-beta-list/2003-August/msg00389.ht
> ml
> 
> Thanks,
> Johnny Hughes
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: John A. Tamplin
> To: donavan nelson
> Cc: whitebox-devel@beau.org
> Sent: 11/25/2003 10:31 AM
> Subject: Re: [WBEL-devel] re: 2nd RC coming?
> 
> On Tue, 25 Nov 2003, donavan nelson wrote:
> 
> > This seems like a good game plan.  I really doubt we are going to find
> too
> > many oracle installations running on WB anyway.  If you can afford an
> Oracle
> > license, aren't you going to just buy RHEL AS?
> 
> Actually the database itself is free for application development only
> from 
> otn.oracle.com.  I use it on my home machines to test platform 
> independence of my perl-DBI code across Oracle, Informix, PostgreSQL,
> and 
> MySQL.
> 
> > One thing I haven't seen addressed is are you going to ship -Final
> with all
> > current RH errata applied?  (If you are, I think RC2 should include it
> also.)
> 
> > RH 7.3 won't stop working on Dec 31st, it just won't be supported.  I
> don't
> > think RH would put off fixing public issues to push them PAST EOL.  In
> all
> > honesty, I think running on 7.3 for a couple months isn't going to be
> a killer
> > as I suspect that any security issues will be fixed by the community.
> 
> I agree that Dec31 is not a drop-dead date, but I think by then the
> users 
> will have decided on a migration plan even if they aren't 
> implementing it immediately.  So, I think it is more important to 
> have a solid RC2 early
> 
> than it is to have -Final done early.
> 
> -- 
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