Oracle on the Mac

damorgan said:

I teach Oracle at the University of Washington and just wanted to let the Mac community know that a milestone has been achieved this week using a pair of G5s.

Kent Stroker of Advanced Technology Services and I have successfully built, tested, and publicly demonstrated Oracle 10g Real Application Clusters on OS X/Darwin 10.3.8 using a Mac mini as the client.

Performance and scalability were excellent and this opens the door for organizations wanting to host industrial strength business applications such as SAP, PeopleSoft, and Siebel to view the Mac as a viable alternative to Sun-Solaris, Hewlett Packard's HP/UX, IBM's AIX, and all of the Linux and Windows based solutions.

Photos taken of the RAC cluster can be seen at http://www.psoug.org.
Click on "RAC on Mac" if you are interested.

The Mac is definitely ready for the corporate data center.

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Nice one, cool stuff.

Mayby with Tiger...

damorgan said:

The Mac is definitely ready for the corporate data center.

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With max. 1GB RAM SGA? (Oracle Bug). I don't think so. Even Windows could use more . We beginn with oracle@mac in Januar but this bug take from us all enthusiasm.

Greeting
dap

damorgan said:

I teach Oracle at the University of Washington and just wanted to let the Mac community know that a milestone has been achieved this week using a pair of G5s.

Kent Stroker of Advanced Technology Services and I have successfully built, tested, and publicly demonstrated Oracle 10g Real Application Clusters on OS X/Darwin 10.3.8 using a Mac mini as the client.

Performance and scalability were excellent and this opens the door for organizations wanting to host industrial strength business applications such as SAP, PeopleSoft, and Siebel to view the Mac as a viable alternative to Sun-Solaris, Hewlett Packard's HP/UX, IBM's AIX, and all of the Linux and Windows based solutions.

Photos taken of the RAC cluster can be seen at http://www.psoug.org.
Click on "RAC on Mac" if you are interested.

The Mac is definitely ready for the corporate data center.

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Well good to see more people at least trying

damorgan said:

Performance and scalability were excellent and this opens the door for organizations wanting to host industrial strength business applications such as SAP, PeopleSoft, and Siebel to view the Mac as a viable alternative to Sun-Solaris, Hewlett Packard's HP/UX, IBM's AIX, and all of the Linux and Windows based solutions.
The Mac is definitely ready for the corporate data center.

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Sorry, I really don't see it this way. What you made sounds like a study that just showed thats possible in principle.

Good that you work on that. If you run Oracle on a Mac - is that fully supported by Oracle ?

CmdrLaForge said:

Sorry, I really don't see it this way. What you made sounds like a study that just showed thats possible in principle.

Good that you work on that. If you run Oracle on a Mac - is that fully supported by Oracle ?

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Yes fully support, but it do not metter - if you can use only 1 GB SGA RAM ( from 16 GB which you can have in Xserver). Mac OS X, do not support IO cache like Linux - so it only waste of memory. Or you do 16 RAC on every Node D

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