RE: Oracle 8i solaris 5.7

Julie,

That's correct. You can see some more taxonomy of the names in the Solaris=  FAQ
at:
http://www.science.uva.nl/pub/solaris/solaris2/Q1.1.html and the follow-on question 1.5.

Dave Miller
Sun Microsystems, Inc.

>Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2001 09:06:21 -0800
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>I believe it's SunOS 5.7 and Solaris 7. A Sun instructor told me they are
>two different pieces of software. SunOS is the core operating system and
>Solaris is SunOS plus additional software. Someone correct me if I'm
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>gurus I mean solaris 5.7 only .
>Earlier it was 2.6 that was called Solaris 6 .
>solaris 5.7 is also known as Solaris 7
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>> -----Original Message-----=20
>> Patrice J=20
>> Sent: Thursday, January 11, 2001 11:29 AM=20
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>> Solaris 5.7?=20
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>> -----Original Message-----=20
>> From: Richard Ji [ mailto:richard_at_letsplay.com
><mailto:richard_at_letsplay.com> ]=20
>> Sent: jeudi, 11. janvier 2001 12:56=20
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>> I think he means 2.7=20
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>Now I'm confused. I've never worked with SunOS before until last week. At
>the Sun home page=20
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>I see mention of Sun Solaris version 8.=20
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>My server at work shows the following:=20
>% uname -a=20
>SunOS server_name 5.7 Generic_106541-08 sun4u sparc SUNW,Ultra-5_10=20
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>a) Is there a difference between SunOS and Sun Solaris?=20
>b) How come I don't see SunOS mentioned at the Sun Operating Environments
>and Platforms web page?=20
>http://www.sun.com/products-n-solutions/software/oe-platforms/index.html
><http://www.sun.com/products-n-solutions/software/oe-platforms/index.html>=
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>Or is it there and I need to clean my glasses?=20
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