Re: Oracle 9i - issues == Deal breaker

> On Mon, 2003-09-15 at 12:25, Matt Pavlovich wrote:
> > Any work around for this?  We will not standardize on RH ES if we can't
> > run Oracle 8 and Oracle 9.
> 
> AFAIK, Oracle is committed to certification on RHEL 3 when it is
> released. Remember that taroon is beta code.

Taroon being beta has nothing to do with why Oracle 8 and 9 are broken. 
RH broke backwards compatibility w/ GLIBC, by not exporting the
__ctype_b, in favor of the localized __ctype_b_loc.  Debian and other
distributions work just fine.  GLIBC was written with backwards
compatibility to avoid issues such as this.

This is an issue w/ how RH built their GLIBC.  Saying 'Oracle will come
out with a version supported for RH 3.0' is not satisfactory.  Breaking
compatibility causes more problems than just what version of Oracle to
run.  It effects licensing and downstream client software compatibility.

We are performaing a major migration from a major UNIX vendor (100's of
servers) to Linux.  Whether or not we use RH AS depends on getting this
resolved. 

Any insite as to why this was done? 

-- 
Matt Pavlovich <[email protected]>
Allegiance Telecom, Inc.


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