Re: questions about oracle on linux

Steven Wu <fgsteven_at_163.net> writes:

> hi,
>
> i got a oracle 8i for linux from www.oracle.com, i want to know if this
> production is really free, is there any limits?

It is free for development or evaluation. You may not use it in a production

environment.
>
> and, another question, 8i ask for a glibc 2.1, is it true? my system
> is slackware 4.0 with glibc 2.0.7, is there any problem? if true, what
> do i do?
>

You could try to upgrade to glibc 2.1. I havn't moved off of 8.0.5 for this reason. I have several packages I use which don't work well with glibc 2.1 yet.

Can you still get 8.0.5 from technet? Perhaps your best bet is to use the older release.

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