Re: why no native Oracle XE 11g for Mac OS X?

From: Fernando José Andrade <jotawolf_at_gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 17 Sep 2011 19:14:32 +0200
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I guess for using it with jdeveloper for testing/developing SOA, BPEL,etc it will be a nice thing, since mabooks are selling quite well. I heard that more and more Oracle employees are using macbooks and since it's not an laptop option in-company they buy em for themselves. One friend that works inside Oracle said that it's also a configuration portal for macbooks so they get all the corporate stuff configured, and it was not build by a corporate order but by employee initiative. If XE is a desktop oriented versión it should be a version for a well selling OS.
On Sat, Sep 17, 2011 at 6:06 PM, Tim Hall <tim_at_oracle-base.com> wrote:

> And exactly how many customers pick OS X when considering a new server?
>
> Answer: Nobody... It is such an marginal OS on the server it doesn't even
> count.
>
> I'm not being narky, but would you seriously waste money porting to an
> OS nobody is going to use? If they think it's worth canning support
> for all those Superdome servers out there, I can't see a sudden rush
> to support OS X. :)
>
> Cheers
>
> Tim...
>
> On Sat, Sep 17, 2011 at 3:31 PM, Sven Aluoor <aluoor_at_gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Sat, Sep 17, 2011 at 2:10 PM, Tim Hall <tim_at_oracle-base.com> wrote:
> >> Oracle produces server software. With that in mind, do you think OS X
> >> warrants any attention from Oracle? When they release a new server
> >> product, should OS X be on their list of platforms to care about? I
> >> wouldn't waste my time and money on it, and typically they don't
> >> either.
> >
> > There is a server version of Lion, which includes PostgreSQL.
> >
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