I remember Oracle 4 on 3 5.25 floppies on a PC/XT with 640kb RAM
(who would ever need more then that?). It had UFI, RPT/RPF,
IAP/IAG (no IAD) and a utility called oralink which was supposed to
function like SQL*Net, but I couldn't get it to work. Oracle 5
was on a decent machine (mVAX 3900 with incredible 16M RAM) and VMS 4.7
(the last one with NULL.COM and NULL process). It was all happening in
the late jurassic, anno domini 1988.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: MacGregor, Ian A. [mailto:ian_at_SLAC.Stanford.EDU]
> Sent: Friday, November 08, 2002 7:28 PM
> To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
> Subject: RE: Oracle 10i new releases
>
>
> Ha I remember Oracle 5 on VM. Ah the joys of minidisks. I
> started with Oracle on VMS in 1984, but I cannot recall the
> exact version. BI files, IOR, UFI, RPT and RPF, IAP and IAG
> when IAP was completely text driven. I was Dba'ing before
> there was SQL*NET.
>
> Back in those days one was the DBA, the developer etc. The
> advantage was one fixed one's own mistakes. Sometimes People
> query, "How did you know what happened?", they think I'm a
> genius. Little do they know, they made the same blunder I did
> in 1986.
>
> Ian MacGregor
> Stanford Linear Accelerator Center
> ian_at_SLAC.Stanford.edu
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> Sent: Friday, November 08, 2002 2:49 PM
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>
>
> Oh... I'm sure they are many other who back farther then
> that... But, I do remember 6.0.36... As a matter of fact it
> was 6.0.36.1.53 on IBM VM... Ah the memories...
>
> Tim
>
> -----Original Message-----
> Sent: Friday, November 08, 2002 4:04 PM
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>
>
> anyone remember the 6 days, 6.0.36 on sunos :)
>
> joe
>
>
> Mercadante, Thomas F wrote:
>
> >Robert,
> >
> >I guess what you say makes sense. But why the need to move
> the release
> >level from 8, to 8i, to 9i to 10i all within 5 years?
> Granted, there
> >were huge improvements from 8 to 9i. I guess what I'm
> arguing for is -
> >lets
> stay
> >at 9i for awhile. There is nothing wrong with 9i release 1
> thru 15.
> >Are the new features that will be available in 10i really
> that radical
> >that justifies a major release? Give the rest of us a
> chance to catch
> >up to 9i.
> >
> >
> >My feeling is that Oracle will get hurt sooner or later -
> people will
> >just plain not move to the newer release, just to face
> migrating again
> >in just a few months. Makes no sense to me.
> >
> >Tom Mercadante
> >Oracle Certified Professional
> >
> >
> >-----Original Message-----
> >Sent: Friday, November 08, 2002 2:09 PM
> >To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
> >
> >
> >Is it that Oracle's business model is pushing these releases
> or is it
> >the rapid pace of technology change and the demand of the user for
> >features?
> The
> >push to the web, XML, Java, and new feature requests (rename column,
> >fk's , drop column, etc...). Then there is competition too
> that has to
> >be considered. If Oracle doesn't "keep up with the Joneses"
> as it were,
> >what kind of market share will it have 5 and 10 years down the line.
> >
> >So, in my opinion, Oracle really has no choice but to pursue
> the course
> that
> >it is. I think they have learned some lessons down the road, and I'm
> willing
> >to bet that 10.0.1 (or whatever) will be far more stable than 9.0.1
> >was.
> >
> >RF
> >
> >Robert G. Freeman - Oracle OCP
> >Oracle Database Architect
> >CSX Midtier Database Administration
> >Author of several Oracle books you can find on Amazon.com!
> >
> >Londo Mollari: Ah, arrogance and stupidity all in the same
> package. How
> >efficient of you.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >-----Original Message-----
> >Sent: Friday, November 08, 2002 12:54 PM
> >To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
> >
> >
> >does this bother anybody else as much as it bothers me?
> just what is
> >Oracle's business model for pushing these release's out this
> fast? are
> >there that many new features, or a market to capture, that justifies
> >this?
> >
> >makes no sense to me. the shelf life of an oracle release
> is now about
> >a year and a half.
> >
> >Tom Mercadante
> >Oracle Certified Professional
> >
> >
> >-----Original Message-----
> >Sent: Friday, November 08, 2002 11:44 AM
> >To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
> >
> >
> >Heard from Tom Kyte that 10i should be out by Dec'03. He
> also said that
> >the code is already frozen and beta testing is going on.
> >
> >Prakash
> >
> >-----Original Message-----
> >Sent: Thursday, November 07, 2002 14:09
> >To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
> >
> >
> >The day we all finish upgrading our databases to 9i.
> >
> >Sunil Nookala
> >DBA
> >Dell Corp.
> >
> >
> >
> >-----Original Message-----
> >Sent: Thursday, November 07, 2002 12:09 PM
> >To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
> >
> >
> >Has anyone heard when Oracle will be releasing version 10i?
> >
> >
> >
>
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