Re: Oracle/VMS performance problems with Multithreaded Server

In article <gEBL5.55373$24.9183043_at_news0.telusplanet.net>,

      "Gord Coulman" <nospam_gcoulman_at_ccinet.ab.ca> writes:

> Getting Oracle to run right on any platform is no easy task. On OpenVMS you
> have to really know what you are doing and manually edit many configuration
> files and DCL scripts. I can't help thinking it should not have to be that
> hard.
>

    As the person who started this thread let me say I'm not unhappy with Oracle on VMS in general ( other than the ridiculously long lag time it took to get an 8.1.x version released for VMS ). However it seems, from my experience and the comments of others here, that the Multithreaded Server is useless on VMS and that Oracle has no great interest in addressing this ("might be fixed in a future version"). I have to suspect that if the same problem occured on Solaris they'd be burning the midnight oil to fix it.

    It seems that outside the closed audience of existing Oracle/VMS customers Oracle doesn't even have any interest in admitting a VMS version exists. Oracle 8i Standard edition has been available on VMS since last spring, but if you check Oracles web page on availability of Standard edition:
(http://www.oracle.com/ip/deploy/database/availability/index.html?content.html)

   you'll not see any mention of VMS. Received on Tue Oct 31 2000 - 08:48:39 CST