Re: setting up oracle v7 on Bayan LAN

In article <CJHw7x.InK_at_murdoch.acc.virginia.edu>, Mark Joseph Vanni <mjv7e_at_hagar5.acc.Virginia.EDU> wrote:
>I was told by a sales rep from Oracle that bayan LAN's are
>not directly supported by Oracle v7. The rep said that in order
>to setup a server for this particular LAN a server running with
>SCO would have to be established and linked to the bayan network.
>An Oracle server could then be setup in this SCO environment.

This is what I was told as well.

>I understand that there are three networkable versions of Oracle v7.
> - OS/2 - Netware - SCO
>Is one of these implementations of Oracle v7 better than the other,
>interms of ease of setup and maintainence?

Obviously you mean for an Intel box (I hope). My personal opinion is that OS/2 Oracle is not robust enough. The Netware vs SCO choice is a little more difficult. As I understand things, Netware (and would appreciate correction), Oracle can't be assured of preemptive multi-tasking unde that NOS, and there would therefore seem to be some advantage to going with Unix. On the other hand, the Newware version is extremely popular, so there might be some advantages that go along with the extra marketing clout (for example more frequent updates, better support).

>Is it not the case that any one of the servers could be setup in their
>respective environments and then mounted onto the bayan LAN.

We have some installations that manage this sort of thing by mounting multiple NICs in the server. I don't think anyone is happy with such solutions because of the need to deal with multiple protocol stacks on the client side.

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