Re: Oracle 7.3.3 & Oracle 8.0.4 on Sun Solaris.. Can they run together?

Wow.

I've been running 8.0.4 against AIX 4.1 and 4.2 without a hitch. Strange, as I thought Solaris was 'first port' platform for Oracle, and AIX is way down the list?

MotoX

Brad Orahood wrote in message
<2117C8F5EDB5D11185D100805FD668D30249A9_at_EXCHANGE>...
>If you have yet to install Oracle 8 on Solaris, I have only one thing to
>say!
>
>DONT!
>
>The current release is so full of bugs, that apparently are "known" but
>"unpublished"
>that it is completely unusable! I've got a production system where
>users are
>being cut off every few transactions, and an instance that crashes every
>few hours!
>These are bugs that may not show up in a low volume test database.
>
>All Oracle will give me for hope is that the "current" bugs I'm finding
>will be
>fixed in a patch - that they're not going to release until the 10th at
>best!
>God only knows what "bugs" I'm going to find after -this- hurdle! And
>good luck getting information on those "unpublished" bugs from Oracle
>support - it will be a two day fight to get them to acknowledge whatever
>your current problem is, and they are fiercely protective of any other
>information about problems you may hit next.
>
>IF YOU RUN SOLARIS, AVOID ORACLE 8 FOR NOW!
>
>
Received on Tue Jul 07 1998 - 04:44:25 CDT