Re: We may need tera-bytes space to install Oracle software in the coming years

On Tue, 23 Jul 2002 20:16:20 +0100, "Paul Brewer" <paul_at_paul.brewers.org.uk> wrote:

>"hund" <hunder_at_hotmail.com> wrote in message
>news:5%f%8.6103$DN4.838734_at_news20.bellglobal.com...
>> I remember only a few years ago, Oracle's most software installations took
>a
>> few hundreds of magabytes, now Oracle9iAS and Oracle9i need several
>> gigabytes space to install. I wonder in the coming years, whether we need
>> hundreds or thousands of gigabytes space to install Oracle software if
>they
>> continue to increase the volume in such speed.
>>
>The other day, for entertainment (sad I know) I was reading an Oracle book
>from 1988 about installing 5.1 on DOS.
>Disk space required was 7mb. Memory 640K.
>
>Paul
>

Just compare Winblows 3.1 or WinNT 3.51 to the current versions.

Regards

Sybrand Bakker, Senior Oracle DBA

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