Re: 11g

JT wrote:
> Anyone have any ideas of what will be incorporated into 11g? Will it be
> another massive bloated pig that will require bigger capacity machines
> to be bought obsoleting existing hardware - bought and paid for?
>
> Is there anyway to slim down a 10g installation to reduce memory usage
> aside from not running em?
>
> Can Oracle 8.1.7 or 8i and the latest patches still be downloaded?
>
> Thanks

I would hardly call 10g, which fits on one CDROM a bloated pig. But 11g will not be substantially different from 10g in terms of hardware requirements TTBOMK.

If you are worried about memory usage, I run 10gR2 on notebooks with only 512MB RAM, learn to alter parameters in the init.ora/spfile.

-- 
Daniel Morgan
University of Washington
Puget Sound Oracle Users Group