wot no linux mavens? shome mishtake shurely.
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Niall Litchfield
Oracle DBA
Audit Commission Uk
"Howard J. Rogers" <howardjr_at_www.com> wrote in message
news:3be4ac44$0$15992$afc38c87_at_news.optusnet.com.au...
> What do I think?
>
> That the merits or otherwise of specific operating systems are best
debated
> in other forums, since this one is supposed to be about Oracle.
>
> It is not widely known that, in my spare time, I do "Madame Clairevoyant"
> routines at local shows. Gazing into my crystal ball, I see that this
> thread will spawn a string of "Mac is brilliant", "XP is M$ crap", "Stick
> with W2K because that's all XP really is", "No, Solaris is the
bees-knees",
> "Pah! VMS knocks the spots off Solaris" posts, and on and on until
eternity.
>
> HJR
> --
>
> Oracle Resources : http://www.hjrdba.com
> =============================
>
>
> "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 Mon Nov 05 2001 - 05:43:43 CST
