Re: Oracles iFS

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Guy,

>Does anyone else find it slightly worrying that Oracle, who boast about
>supporting 90 platforms (albiet 60 of those are different flavors of
>Unix), seem to spend most of their time & effort on NT and Solaris
these
>days? They'll ship product on these two platforms, then it will follow
>on the rest whenever they get around to it. We mostly use them anyway,
>but that's not the point: one of the reasons for the adoption of
>Oracle was the ability to leverage/coexist with other platforms. Hmm.

Back in the late 80's and early 90's (up until 92-93 mebbe), VAX VMS was Oracle's platform of preference. Releases and patches used to come out on VMS before they reached UNIX (and there were a lot of variants in those days)... Guess it is just business sense and fully understandable!

John Kanagaraj
Brunei Shell Petroleum
http://www.geocities.com/john_sharmila

God so loved the world that He didn't send a committee! (See John 3:16 for details)
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