> Eric Langager wrote: > > Greetings, > > We are currently in the process of setting up the curriculum for > teaching the Oracle database system here at the University of > Advancing Computer Technology. I feel that it would be a good idea to > teach Oracle administration on some sort of UNIX platform, and I am > very interested in the possibility of using LINUX as a platform, due > to its appeal as a PC based system. > > I have talked to Red Hat, and Caldera. Red Hat did not recommend 7.0 > as a platform. They do have a special version of Red Hat dedicated to > Oracle, but it costs $2500--obviously not a solution for my students. > > Caldera encouraged me to wait until the next kernal comes out, which > may be a good idea. > > I was just wondering if there is anyone who has implemented Oracle > using Debian as a platform. I am particularly interested in Debian > because it seems to be less commercialized than some of the others. > > I would appreciate feedback anyone might have about setting up Oracle > servers on Debian LINUX. Our networking lab has Intel based systems > (Pentium) with removable hard drives, and 64 MB of RAM. I would like > to teach an implementation which would be easy for students to put > together on their own with very low cost. > In light of the heavy memory requirements some have mentioned, have you considered running Postgresql instead? It's free software, it's a perfectly full-featured SQL DBMS, and it works great on Debian well within your memory requirements.
Of course, they couldn't put "Oracle experience" on their resumes then, which I'm sure would be a drawback. In real terms, it's a perfectly good learning platform.
