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>> As we all know, there is nothing in the Oracle world >> (production releases) for Linux on PPC. >> Oracle has announced such things in the past for >> 8.1.6, 8.1.7 and 9.2, but never actually shipped it. >> Any Mac advocacy site is just spewing FUD until it >> actually shows up in Metalink under "Certifiability >> and Availability" as "Shipping".
> True, but there is a developer release at OTN for Linux/PPC. IBM is
> selling Linux blades with PPC and some people have succeed in
> installing it in Macs (with Linux) as well. Also there is going to be a
> seminar Apple/Oracle on June 10 and both Oracle and Sybase have
> sessions on the agenda of Apple WWDC in June (Sybase is in production
> in Macs for some years now).
Yes, and if you look at some of the 10.1 install scripts (was it root.sh..?) some of the code for OSX is already there, but commented out. Metalink claims "Planned for CYQ304", I am crossing my fingers.
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