Re: Install Oracle 8i on Windows XP?

Silly masturbatory bigotry. I suppose you think it is a good thing to drive all the NT people to using SQL Server by acting like a typical snobby *sshole Unix DBA?

If the guys asking the question wanted to learn Linsux they would have. Linsux desktop is still sucky. There are a lot of stable production windows server systems. Not as good Unix, but it doesn't have to be.

Here is the main problem with MS: in order to sell product (new operating systems), they have to sell it on new systems. So in order to get people to buy new systems, they have to add bloat (er... "features").

.NET is full of bloat (Palladium, etc.), but if MS' marketing people succeed in convincing the market that .NET is easier than java and open source, they will "win".

regards,
ep

On 27 Jul 2002 at 11:48, Mladen Gogala wrote:

>
> On 2002.07.27 14:49 Eric D. Pierce wrote:
> > JUST SETUP A DUAL BOOT OF WINDOWS 2000 PRO AND WINDOWS XP PRO
> > AND MAKE YOUR LIFE EASIER!!!
>
>
> And then reformat all your disks, install Red Hat 7.3 and make your life
> still easier. No dual boot required. Keep your system Micros*t free.
>
> >
> > ---
> >
> > Remember, "Windows .NET Server 2003" (the precise term used by
> > Bill Gates recently) is the next evolution of the kind of
> > production platform that Oracle server needs to run on,
>
>
> Yes. The most significant advance is that the blue screen of death will
> be replaced by the green one, to signify Microsoft's concerns for our
> environment. Microsoft is famous for the stability of its products,
> particularly
> the Exchange. Microsoft is really something that you want your
> production
> database to be running on. Does the ".net" part mean that a database
> running
> on a MS sever will be vulnerable to any damned virus there is on the
> (.)net?
>
>
>
> >
> > --> NOT XP
> >
> > (which is a desktop platform)!!!
>
>
> Not on my desk!
>
> >
> > XP is the desktop "Whistler", whereas Windows .NET Server 2003
> > is the server version of "Whistler".
> >
> > Oracle will probably have the same problem with "Longhorn",
> > which will be the next evolutionary step in the desktop
>
>
> Since when is return to the dinosaurs called "evolution"?
>
> > progression after "XP".
>
>
> Donward progression, that is. Just press Ctrl-Alt-Del.
>
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