Re: does oracle supports oracle 8.1.7. on sun solaris 8 (64bit) - pro

According to a presentation by an Oracle "salesperson" at the last Upstate New York Oracle User's Group meeting (held at Oracle in Rochester), Oracle no longer develops on Sun. They have changed their development platform to HP-UX.

"Boivin, Patrice J" wrote:

> I am confused again... I thought Oracle was developed on solaris, then
> ported to the other UNIX flavours?
>
> I would have expected them to have the latest version available for solaris
> before any other OS.
>
> Although lately they seem to be putting the emphasis on development for NT,
> which confuses me even more.
>
> Regards,
> Patrice Boivin
> Systems Analyst (Oracle Certified DBA)
>
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: paquette stephane [SMTP:stephane_paquette_at_yahoo.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, May 15, 2001 2:20 PM
> To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
> Subject: Re: does oracle supports oracle 8.1.7. on sun
> solaris 8 (64bit) - pro
>
> Oracle 817 is not available yet on Solaris.
> I asked Oracle support a while ago and they told me it
> would be for the beginning of may.
>
> I check yesterday at Oracle store and it was not
> available.
>
> I'll probably go for the 817 32bit.
>
> --- Narender Akula <narender.akula_at_terralinkltd.com> a
> écrit : >
> > hi Gurus,
> >
> > I would like know wheather oracle supports oracle
> > 8.1.7. on sun solaris 8
> > (64bit) ? Where do i find more info.I searched in
> > product life cycle in
> > metalink.. i could not find much info..
> > can some body tell or where to look.
> > what are the pros and cons ? does any body had
> > problems or issues after
> > upgrade the OS from 7 to 8 ?
> >
> > > narender.akula
> > > http://www.terralinkltd.com
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