HansF wrote:
> On Wed, 26 Oct 2005 17:17:56 -0400, Serge Rielau amused us by writing:
>
>
>>When did O10gR2 ship first btw?
>
>
> First I saw on the download page was roughly mid-August and that was for
> Linux. I posted elsewhere in this thread that the Windows port was ready
> for download Sept 8. All of them happened within a month - where the OS
> was considered production. (AFAIK there were some issues in stability of
> the OS libraries for 64 bit Linux which may be the cause of the delays in
> Oracle on 64-bit Linux.)
>
> Given that Oracle provides some graphical UI tools and the UIs have
> significantly different APIs, I could personally justify a 2-3 week
> 'additional testing' cycle under the WIndows platform. Which: would
> indicate the difference may have nothing to do with the database at all;
> may be irrelevant; is pure speculation.
July 7 according to this historical blurp:
http://technology.amis.nl/blog/index.php?p=662
Cheers
Serge
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Serge Rielau
DB2 SQL Compiler Development
IBM Toronto Lab
Received on Wed Oct 26 2005 - 19:09:21 CDT
