[Novalug] January Meeting Topic(Oracle Poll)

Timothy Ferro timothy.ferro@gmail.com
Tue Dec 5 12:50:28 EST 2006


I am an oracle DBA. i would love to meet with everyone who is unfortunate
enough to work with this product. either at a novalug meeting or otherwise.

tim

On 12/5/06, Doug Needham <sheridan3003@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> Just out of curiosity....
>
> How many other Oracle DBA's or users are on the list?
>
> Doug
>
>
>
> *Peter Larsen <plarsen@famlarsen.homelinux.com>* wrote:
>
> CPalmer wrote:
> > I'll be glad to do a presentation on Oracle installation (I'm an Oracle
> > DBA), including what to do once the install is finished to get a working
> > database. January is not good for me so let's talk about March or
> > after.
>
> :) Glad to see other Oracle professionals as part of this group. I
> would be glad to meet up at our next meeting to just get acquainted.
> Having been in the "Oracle industry" for 20 years and run it on
> practical every platform, including MSDOS, how Oracle has "tackled" or
> rather not tackled Linux has been my pet-pea for a long time.
>
> As anyone who's tried to install Oracle, it's not a matter of just
> installing an RPM. Would there be any interest in a discussion of how
> mastodont vendors like Oracle "embrase" Open Source in some areas, while
> refusing to take advantage on their core products?
>
> Btw. Oracle has a few months ago released a FREE version of Oracle -
> Express. It's easier to approach, but has less features than the normal
> DB - in other words, it's a direct response to MySQL and PostSQL. Is the
> interest in the standard/enterprise models of the RDBMS or would there
> be a bigger interest in these more available/free versions?
>
> Regards
> Peter Larsen
>
> PS. I don't know Tim (yet) but if he's interested in doing the
> presentation, I gracefully stand down. I just wanted to make sure we got
> the subject narrowed a bit, since Oracle is such a wide subject.
>
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