Re: HELP! Need ammo against Oracle on NT!!

In article <366C1F6A.27B452BB_at_non-hp-usa-om46.om.hp.com>,   michael_rothwell_at_non-hp-usa-om46.om.hp.com wrote:
> Gary Zayas wrote:
> >
> > >Last weeks PC Week had an article that said Oracle on UNIX runs circles
> > >around Oracle on NT. Not surprising. UNIX is the first platform Oracle is
> > >developed for, then ported everywhere else. I think Novell is among the
last
> > >platforms to get new releases. Not surprising either.
> > >
> >
> > Is that true? I thought VMS was the first Oracle OS supported.
> >
> > Greg
> >

Development platform for Oracle is Solaris, then it's ported to NT and then to all the other platforms ( flavors of UNIX, Linux, Novell etc. )

Regards
>
> At one time, a few years ago, I believe that Oracle did VMS
> first. But as VMS dwindled in popularity and Unix became
> more popular, they switched to Unix as the first supported
> platform. My understanding is that NT isn't far behind tho.
>
> Michael
>

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