This article was originally posted on the Delphix Support blog on 15-Nov 2015, but with the deprecation of the XPP feature with the new 6.0 release and higher, it was decided best to remove this article.
So, I have saved it and posted it here instead, almost 4 years to the day after it was originally posted…
The topic of converting Oracle databases from one of the proprietary
UNIX platforms (i.e. Solaris, AIX, or HP-UX) to Linux seems at first pretty
esoteric and far-fetched.
Meh. Right?
Plus, a lot of folks who have used Solaris, AIX, and HP-UX over the years can
argue that those operating systems have far more capabilities and
technical advantages than Linux, and they may be absolutely correct. Who wants to get caught up in a religious debate?