Re: Oracle 8 *Top 10 wishlist*

In article <33199586.7EF72D4D_at_sympatico.ca> Stephane Lajeunesse <slajeunesse_at_sympatico.ca> writes:
>Atif Ahmad Khan wrote:
>>
>> 1. We want a Linux version of Oracle 8 please !
>
>Yes.. We all want it!
>
>FWIW, I talked to somebody at Oracle about a Linux release of Oracle
>Workgroup server. Is reply to me was that they were afraid of the fact
>that Linux is a 'moving target'. What scares them is the fact that the
>Unix admin can recompile a new kernel when the newest version is
>released thus possibly breaking the Oracle server itself. This for them
>is not what they want. They want something more stable (kernel version,
>library version). On the other hand, isn't this what Caldera is doing?
>Giving anybody who whishes to develop for Linux commercially a 'stable'
>non-moving platform???
>
>Steph.

As if Oracle never broke anyone else when its library changed.

To paraphrase an old saying, no one ever got fired for not choosing linux.

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