Re: No 64bit Oracle 8i

I had always thought that the tru64 oracle was 64 bit. What is you source. for this information.

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"Raymond Sebuwufu" <sleepinglion40_at_hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> Hi,

> our project is building a system that is intending to use a Sun solaris


> E10000 runing UNIX.

> Now I believe this is a 64bit machine and the problem we have encountered

 is


> the software


> we were writing was specifically designed as 64bit thus we intended on

 using


> a 64bit version

> of Oracle.


>

> Much to our horror, it seem the 64bit version of Oracle is not available

> even if it is refered to on their

> website. ORACLE also cannot give us a concrete release date.

>

> 1. Does anyone have any ideas of how we can get around this problem.

 (We've


> thought about using different databases


>     but this change is not desirable. Plus we've thought about building a

> conversion API layer between a 32bit version of

>     oracle which allows the 64bit processes to access and this is not

> desirable as well. The system we are building is

>     realtime and is expected to have very high performance

>

> 2. Has anyone encountered this problem before and managed to resolve it.

> What was your solution

> 3. Does anyone have any other useful additions/suggestions...etc that can

> help

>

>

> Please reply soon if you have anything useful that can help.

>

> Regards

>

> Raymond

>

>