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Re: Need SQL*Net v2.1.4 for ULTRIX - Please Help!!

From: <mgogala_at_rocketmail.com>
Date: 1998/12/24
Message-ID: <75sljc$ufc$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com>#1/1

In article <36819070.460481016_at_wlbr.iipo.gtegsc.com>,   jeff.adams_at_gscxyz.gte.com wrote:
> Does anyone out there have a version 2.1.4 SQL*Net client that runs on
> Ultrix (v4.4) that I could get a copy of? This would have come with
> Oracle Server version 7.1.4.1.1 (the last version that shipped for
> Ultrix, according to technical support). The way to tell what SQL*Net
> client is to look in ORACLE_HOME/orainst/unix.rgs.
>
> The whole story follows:
>
> We have a system with a bunch of ULTRIX (DECStation 5000/133's)
> machines that runs a custom application that includes calling stored
> procedures stored on a DEC Alpha (which runs an ORACLE database
> v7.1.X). The clients are running a 1.X SQL*Net, and the 7.1.X server
> is running the 1.X listener. But the DEC Alpha is getting upgraded
> from OSF-1 to Digital UNIX, and the Oracle server is going from 7.1.X
> to 7.3.4.
>
> The problem is that we now need to get version 2.1.4 of SQL*Net for
> the Ultrix clients, because that is the minimum (lowest) version of
> SQL*Net that will communicate with the 2.3.4 listener that comes with
> the Oracle 7.3.4 server. Oracle can not help us (we have a CSI number,
> and I have talked with Client Relations, Customer Service, and
> Technical Support) and they just plain don't have that software
> anymore (it was de-supported a few years ago). They would be happy to
> ship it to us, but, it doesn't exist.
>
> Thanks to all,
> Jeff Adams
>
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The solution would be to trash those old DECSystems, buy a few PCs, install Solaris X86 2.6 and Oracle 7.3.4 for that platform and enjoy.

--
Mladen Gogala

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