Re: No 64bit Oracle 8i

The Swiss 2000 census information is stored on a Sun 10000 with Oracle, so they may be able to help. Check out the English site: http://www.statistik.admin.ch/vz2000/chap09/eindex.html, or you can send an email to: info.census_at_bfs.admin.ch

"Raymond Sebuwufu" <sleepinglion40_at_hotmail.com> wrote in message news:985003270.132505_at_ernani.logica.co.uk...
> 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
>
>
Received on Tue Mar 20 2001 - 10:52:35 CET