Re: Oracle released ( finally ) 10.2 on solaris 10 x86 ( 32 bit )

Vladimir M. Zakharychev wrote:
>
> Now that's cool - I just downloaded me Sol10_x86 U2 to play with and
> was a bit upset that there's no 32-bit Oracle for it (well, not a big
> problem getting an AMD64 or Intel EM64T CPU these days, but I don't
> like to upgrade unless I really have to.) Now there is, so my
> playground just added another toy and I don't have to upgrade for a
> little while. :)

I don't think the oracle 10.2 for sol 10 x86 64 bit runs on anything but AMD. Or maybe it is that the sol10 x86 64 bit runs only on AMD?

> Personally, I would go with Solaris - Linux won't be anywhere near in
> features, stability and scalability for the next few years even with
> all effort put into it, by which time Solaris will move even
> further.And there are so many flavours of Linux, supporting them all is
> simply impossible even though they may all be based on the same kernel
> (and Oracle doesn't, they support but 3 different distributions
> afaik...) But Larry strongly supports Linux, at least in interviews, so
> who knows...

At least in interviews ... but last year at Open World ( and since then ) strong support for sun onstage and offstage. Received on Tue Sep 19 2006 - 13:13:38 CDT