Study Notes

Linux is the best suitable operating system for oracle, only the following OS was certificated by Oracle:

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 (RHEL 4), RHEL 3, RHEL 2.1,

Novell SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 9(SLES 9), SLES 8

if recomplie the kernel or use the third-party tools to modify the kernel, Oracle does not supply the unbreakable support. Oracle said there are so many Linux distribution all around the world, it is impossible to certificated every Linux distributions.

As we all know, Tencent Co. used Slackware Linux, which type of database would be instaledl in their servers? DB2, or Sysbase?

I’ve never seen IBM server with AIX through I heard many people said IBM machine was huge and stable.