Techworld looks at Oracle 10g for Mac OS X
updated 06:30 pm EDT, Fri August 5, 2005
Oracle 10g review
Oracle 10g for Mac OS X has much improved management over previous versions, but the optimal performance is still achieved by a trained DBA and the installer needs a lot of manual intervention, : "The Mac version of Oracle is, in reality, little different from the other versions – or, at least, the other non-Windows versions.... The company's been thrown a bit of a bouncer now that Apple has proclaimed its desire to start using Intel processors instead of the PowerPC, but according to Oracle's product chaps it's no big deal because Mac OS on Intel is that much closer to the core Linux build structure than Mac OS on PowerPC. Although there's a bit of a hiatus in Oracle's Mac OS development department at present, the company insists that as well as producing Intel-based applications, the PowerPC version will be supported for as long as Apple supports it.
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Oracle 10g on Mac OS X
My group has performed many stand-alone and RAC cluster installs on OSX/Darwin and it is stable, scalable, and outperforms Linux and Solaris for a far lower hardware/operating system cost.
Pictures of two of our RAC on Mac clusters can be found at: www.psoug.org/rac_on_mac.html.
The largest clusters we have built to-date are two 10 node clusters in Tokyo Japan. Multiple clusters are working in the US and Germany.
There will be two presentations on Oracle on the Mac at OpenWorld in San Francisco in September: One of which I will be giving.