Hello, On Oct 29, 2012, at 19:39 , a b wrote:
> As far as I know, Oracle corporation does not support Debian - the only two > Linux operating systems it does support are Oracle enterprise Linux and > redhat enterprise Linux, and that with Oracle enterprise Linux essentially > being a redhat derivative. > > So as far as Oracle is concerned, one may run an Oracle database on any Linux > operating system, so long as that operating system is a redhat enterprise > Linux derivative. I've come to understand the same, yes - and even on RHEL, installing it is a pain. > > (b) set up a testing instance on your end. I'm happy to provide any details > > about our Jenkins setup to make that easy. > > That will be another problem - our company strictly and explicitly forbids > using Java anywhere, for anything. And Jenkins a Java application. > > But all things considered, since Solaris 10 can be downloaded for free and > does not need a license for development / testing, it is trivial to set up > yet another VM. > > Is that out of the question? Should I even ask "why"? The VM box we use for development cannot host Solaris. Ignoring that, my lack of experience with Solaris -and- Oracle would make this a time-consuming project which means other projects with more immediate benefits get preference. Kind regards, -- Peter van Dijk Netherlabs Computer Consulting BV - http://www.netherlabs.nl/ _______________________________________________ Pdns-users mailing list Pdns-users@mailman.powerdns.com http://mailman.powerdns.com/mailman/listinfo/pdns-users