Re: Oracle 8 .0.4 for NetWare

FYI - 804 is still "post beta" and 805 is the current release.

Oracle has never done much with the product on NetWare. I used 6036, 7.0 thru 7.0.16.6 (we were the .6 having diagnosed for them a space leak so severe we could reproduce it at will with the full ORA-600 stack). They literally had 3 support guys who knew 7.0.x on NetWare - period.

Does it still run in protected more (ring 0 in 3.x)? My servers locked up so often I tried to times I tried to time things over lunch :-)

NT took a lot of resources away from NetWare within the Desktop devel/supt group. Now Linux will do that even more as O people who want to use the most popular stuff are going to go to it from NetWare and even NT (Oracle hates all MS stuff including NT).

My advice is to review the absolute need to use Oracle on NetWare.

>>Has anyone used this version of Oracle 8, and if so, what type of
>experience
>>have you had with it? I've seen O8 for UNIX, and NT, but this version
>>appears to accompany Novell's NetWare for Small Business Product only.
>Heck,
>>I've even contacted Oracle support and they were fishing around for
>>information. You can imagine how comforting that was :-)
>>
>>Any account, positive or negative, of experiences you've had with this
>product
>>is greatly appreciated.
>>
Received on Wed May 05 1999 - 20:38:41 CDT