Re: Can Personal Oracle8i be installed on a Win95

On Thu, 21 Oct 1999 22:15:46 -0600, "Tom Gray" <tgray_at_siri.com> wrote:

>Agreed! I'm trying to run Designer 6 with ANY version of Personal Oracle.
>It isn't ludicrous. I'm a traveller and my laptop, which has worked fine
>with D2.1.1 and 8.0.4, suddenly won't cut it. 'Upgrading' to NT is a
>problem.
>

I fully sympathise with you. I'm working on a project that needs to be both portable and run on Win95 & 98. I was using Personal Oracle 8.03, and found a nasty internal bug which completely halted development. Oracle admitted it was a major problem and said the only solution was to upgrade to Personal Oracle 8i which fixes the problem, but Personal 8i cannot be run on 95 or 98. Doh! So what am I to do? It must run on 95/98 - users will not upgrade to NT - Personal and Workstation 8.04, 8.05 doesn't fix this problem, Oracle Lite doesn't have PL/SQL (which I need).

Oracle really pisses me off sometimes. Their marketing / designers need some rudimentary lessons on chosing target platforms. Why the hell have they written a Personal RDBMS which now only runs on NT (and incidentally, needs a beast of a machine stacked to the roof with RAM to be able to install it - let alone run it - anyway)? If it's to do with the JVM, then they should allow users not to use it.

Derrrrrrrrr!

Paul
aspscott_at_tcp.co.uk
^^ remove 'as' anti spam prefix to reply Received on Mon Oct 25 1999 - 18:19:50 CDT