Re: Oracle and Sybase on same machine?

In article <375ff642.64429204_at_news>,
  etheridge_at_presearch-sd.com wrote:
> A friend of mine wants to run both Oracle and Sybase on the same
> machine (Unix or NT, doesn't matter to him). He tells me that this is
> supposed to be a difficult thing to do. I have not used either
> product, so I don't have a clue. Is it possible to run both at the
> same time? If so, is it difficult? Is there a procedure that should be
> followed to do this? Thanks in advance for any help.

Difficult-not in my experience. on Unix, different databases can usually co-exist on the same server with no problem. During a conversion project, I ran Oracle 7.3.4 on the same box as our Sybase server. No problems.

NT can be an entirely different monster. I haven't tried it with Sybase, however I can tell you that SQL Server and Oracle do not work well together on the same NT server. They spend most of their time fighting over the same resources.

In short--if you do this, go with some flavor of UNIX.

HTH, Denzil

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