Re: 8i NOT include JVM? An "option"?

Hehe, this sounds just like Sybase. They've been touting JVM in the machine for months and months and it's nowhere to be found in Adaptive Server. It's in SQL Anywhere but it's SQL Anyone's guess when it'll appear in ASE.

On Wed, 17 Mar 1999 17:36:58 -0600, "Randall J. Parr" <rparr_at_temporal.com> wrote:

>I have been trying to find information about Oracle 8i and specifically
>8i on Linux (soon to be available?) and the differences between Standard
>Edition and Enterprise Edition.
>
>I came accros some, for me at least, disturbing information.
>
>When I went to the Oracle Store (trying to see the difference in price
>between Standard Edition and Entrerprise Edition) I found references to
>something called JServer (NOT JDeveloper). The Oracle Store description
>reads as if JServer is the JVM for 8i. I could find no other reference
>to JServer on the Oracle sites but I did notice that the Oracle 8i has
>started including references to the Java "option".
>
>This disturbs me because Java in the server has been the entire emphasis
>and reason for living for 8i. BUT it appears that it has become a server
>option (which costs almost as much as the server did in the first
>place).
>
>Is this true? If I upgrade, under my maintenance, etc., am I going to
>get a version of 8i without Java thus being forced to buy the server all
>over again to get a version of 8i with Java?
>
>R.Parr
>Temporal Arts
>
>
Received on Sat Mar 20 1999 - 08:44:16 CST