Re: Oracle for Solaris 2.7

J Costello wrote:

> In article <bBrl3.772$X_6.204305_at_news1.rdc1.on.wave.home.com>,
> Yousuf Khan <ykhan_at_spam.home.com.spam> wrote:
> >James Collings <james_at_futuress.globalnet.co.uk> wrote in message
> >news:7mvuua$k5t$1_at_gxsn.com...
> >> Does anybody know where I can source Oracle for Solaris 2.7, in the same
> >> style as the Educational "cheapware" Solaris x86 from Sun.
> >>
> >> Obviously I can spend the $x,xxx for the full release, however, the
> >schools
> >> budget won't stretch that far. Anything up to the $100 mark would be
> >cool.
> >> I have seen that Oracle do 30 day evaluation licenses, anybody got
> >> experience of this here in the UK? Or better still, anybody know if the
> >> license can be "waived" for Education reasons.
> >
> >Have you looked into MySQL? Not Oracle, but SQL nonetheless and the price is
> >right (free).
> >
> > Yousuf Khan
>
> Last time I checked Oracle's Technet, Oracle had not released the software
> for Solaris on x86. Solaris on Sparc is available (my webmaster got a copy
> from Oracle's Internet conference), but was quite difficult to install.
> Since we didn't want to pay the licensing fees (this was at an educational
> institution), we went with mySQL.
>
> Cos
> costello_at_teleport.com

Hi,

Something I don't understand. I have been using Oracle 7.3 on Solaris 2.4 x86. It was an evaluation version, but it worked fine :-). So I think it is no true that "Oracle had not released the software for Solaris x86". Maybe they have meant the latest version of Oracle Server is not released on Sol-x86.

Serge Received on Wed Aug 11 1999 - 17:20:14 CDT