Re: Oracle8i on Windows 95/98???

Hi Prasanna,

1. As far as I know, the EE always consists of server software and client software for multiple platforms. The server software has never run on anything else than WinNT. This is an issue of memory requirements and probably of architecture. For win95/98 there is Personal Oracle.
2. It does contains multiple clients and their platforms are being mentioned in the docs They are not differentiating platforms because usually for each platform you get all client products
3. yes
4. I wouldn't say so. There are many commercial firms where they wouldn' t even consider running win95/98, and have been going for NT instead. But that's just an opinion of course. Win 95/98 is going to disappear anyway with the advent of win 2000.

Kind regards,

Sybrand Bakker, Oracle DBA

Prasanna Nagarajan wrote in message
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>I've just received the CD(free copy-OTN) of Oracle8i EE for Windows NT.
>During setup it is supposed to show(as per the docs) 3 products namely
>a)Oracle8i EE
>b)Oracle8i Client components ...
>c)Oracle8i Programmer components....
>
>But since my machine is windows 98, setup program showed only the last 2
>options. My question is
>1) Can the database engine can be installed in win95/98?
>2) if Database Engine can only be installed on Windows NT, then why in
>documentations they say something like
>>>>Oracle8i Enterprise Edition for Windows NT and Windows 95/98
>Installation<<<
>and not differentiating the platform in later discussions?
>3) Is it implied that in win 95/98 only b) & c) can be installed and all
>three can be installed in win NT?
>4) Since win 95/98 is most commonly used than Windows NT among individual
>users, why did they come up with giving away free copy to the members? (I
>realize the fact that it's just a promotion for the product)
>
>I understand that this is not the place for these questions, but i would
>like to know whether i miss something.
>
>I'd appreciate for the help in advance
>Prasanna
>
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Received on Sat May 08 1999 - 11:26:40 CDT