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Migrating From Solaris 9 Enterprise on Sun Fire V440 With Oracle 9i Enterprise Edition to Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.2 on Dell R900 With Oracle 11g Enterprise Edition

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Overview The Dell PowerEdger R900 is an excellent server for upgrading critical database applications from Oracle 9i running on Solaris 9 to Oracle 11g, the latest release of Oracle's data management platform, running on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.2 (RHEL 5.2). This Migration Guide reviews the approach that Principled Technologies (PT) and Dell recommend for a tested and validated migration of Oracle 9i databases to Oracle 11g on the Dell PowerEdge R900 server and RHEL 5.2.

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Publisher	Principled Technologies	File Format	PDF
Date Published	November 2008
Format	White Papers
Topics	Upgrades and Migration, Linux Server OS, Database Applications

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