Oracle and Sybase Box

[ClaireHCM]

I am buying a Unix Box (Or Linux Box) which Oracle and Sybase can run on . Better it could also support DB2/UDB.

Could any body guide me how to proceed?

 

[SantaMufasa]

Claire,

We run several Unix boxes that run Oracle, Sybase, and DB2 simultaneously. What issue(s) are your worried about?

Mufasa
(aka Dave of Sandy, Utah, USA @ 05:31 (08May04) UTC (aka "GMT" and "Zulu"), 22:31 (07May04) Mountain Time)

 

[ClaireHCM]

Thanks for your reply.

I am actually looking for a cheap machine which I could afford to buy and practise those RDBMS at home.

I believe many DBA have Unix box at home. Which model they usually go for?

Thanks in advance

 

[parbhani]

Hi ,

If u are looking for personal home use, I will give my example.

My laptop is 2.4 GHz, 40GB, 512 MB RAM, Compaq.
I have Redhat Linux 8 and a Linux partition of 16MB ( rest for windows, browsing, music etc ).

Most of the time I am running Oracle 9i, Sybase 12.5 simultaneously and running c programs, Java and Perl code etc.

I never faced any problem. If you are buying a PC, I would say, get 1GB RAM, to try out J2EE stuff with database and 80GB hard disk to install things like Oracle Apps etc.

Cheers