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SYBASE EMBRACING LINUX |
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By: Wim ten Have, Staff Software Engineer Development - Sybase Inc. |
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As the Penguin grew into the Enterprise class servers, Linux became a 'core' development platform to Sybase ESD engineering. Short comings and weaknesses previously provoking ASE to take advantage of for performance or scaling like Raw disk I/O, Large File Support, Asynchronous disk I/O and the use of Native platform threads are now supported and enabled by most of Sybase Enterprise Server products and available Software Development Kits.
The DBA/SA as well as application developers switching from Unix/NT to Linux and unfamiliar with the administration often find themselves left in a jungle of platform configuration files. Topics covered include the Sybase supported Linux distributions showing a Sybase product version matrix and how to setup, administrate and tune these specific features. Installing Sybase Software under Linux, for Linux/ASE the Sybase ESD components are delivered as RPM packages. RPM brings a powerful set of features many times liked by system administrators as it allows for easy and consistent problem determination, installation, upgrade and software management. Connecting your Enterprise server machine to the Internet, Linux makes an ideal platform to connect directly to the Internet as it carries strong firewall and virtual network capabilities. |
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