I came to know at Oracle 10g seminar today that Oracle 10g for windows will
be released at the end of march 2004.
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From: "Niall Litchfield" <n-litchfield_at_audit-commission.gov.uk>
To: <oracle-l_at_freelists.org>
Sent: Tuesday, February 17, 2004 12:08 PM
Subject: RE: Oracle 10g for Windows
> Comments below
>
> > Interesting! Have you messed with UNC naming with Oracle? =20
> > That would make
> > things easier for those of us who don't regularly maintain=20
> > Oracle DBs on
> > Windows and have to remotely figure out where "D:", "E:", and=20
> > "F:" point to.
>
> I wasn't talking about UNC naming (at least not as I understand it
\\server=
> name\sharename ) but the ability that came in with Windows 2000 (strictly
N=
> TFS5) to mount a new volume either as a new drive letter or as part of an
e=
> xisting filesystem.
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=3D/li=
> brary/en-us/fileio/base/volume_mount_points.asp gives the overview. Now
adm=
> ittedly this is approximately 42 years after Unix but there you are.=20
>
>
> > As far as Werner's wonderful site, yes, I agree with you to a=20
> > point. The
> > problem there is inherent to RedHat and not to Linux in=20
> > general. Also, the
> > problem seems to be there with versions of RedHat not=20
> > supported by Oracle
> > (albeit not as bad as trying to install Oracle Server on WinMe).
>
> I had similar problems with 9.2 on mandrake 9.2, and being largely
incompet=
> ent with linux, and curious I just installed 10g instead, I also take your
=
> point - I wouldn't consider installing Oracle Server on a non-supported
win=
> dows platform, but quite happily breeze through doing this with Linux.
This=
> shows either the superiority of linux, or my foolishness :( =20
>
> > On the ORACLE_HOME stuff, Oracle specifically says not to set=20
> > Unix-like
> > environment variables in Windohs, at least for 8.1.7 (see=20
> > install guide).
> > Not that I'm against breaking an Oracle Corp recommendation=20
> > (for me, it's
> > parts of OFA), but what problems could it cause? Just=20
> > GUI-related stuff?
>
> I wouldn't set global environment variables, but am quite happy to set
them=
> for the duration of the command interpreter session. Yes you do upset GUI
=
> stuff (and possibly some of the services) if you set them at a system
level=
> (or even user logon level) - I've never had a problem running a cmd
prompt=
> and pretending windows was a real OS.=20
>
> Cheers
>
> Niall Litchfield
> Oracle DBA
> Audit Commission
> +44 117 975 7805=20
>
>
>
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