I will install XP at home - I currently have 98se, NT4 and Linux RH7.1...
(i'm skipping 2000)
I've heard nothing but good things from all those Wintel admins and hey - it
allows me to run server software
together with my favorite games (check out www.mame.dk and www.mame.net
:-) ) - this is how windows should
have been from the beginning ...
Having said that - I won't be running Oracle (except from the client stuff)
on it - RH7.1 is rock solid running Oracle 8.1.7.0.1, Oracle 9.0.1, IAS9i
AND DB2 (!) :-)
You will NEVER EVER be able to run this kind of configuration on one windows
XP box - trust me, I've tried. IAS9i for example
will not run correctly on it - the problem is all the 8.0.6 crap that comes
with it ( like forms/reports server ... ) ... Oracle 9i DB works fine tho
...
"Dino Hsu" <dino1_at_ms1.hinet.net> wrote in message
news:c48a8333.0111031748.21a4445_at_posting.google.com...
> Dear all,
>
> I have just installed Oracle 8.1.7 EE on Windows XP Professional at
> home, so far it works quite well. One problem was jrew.exe crashed
> when creating the database during installation, the listener was not
> up, but I fixed it easily with lsnrctl.exe.
>
> I am not sure whether Oracle will certify XP, but there is a good
> reason to do this. Windows XP Professional combines both the NT
> technology of Windows 2000 and the multimedia and networking
> capabilities (good for home) of Windows ME (and better). If you have
> only one computer at home, you can do Oracle and listen to cyber-radio
> at the same time and on the same box. Windows XP is easy to configure
> everything, you can save time, too.
>
> What do you think?
>
> Dino
Received on Sun Nov 04 2001 - 05:04:09 CST
