Re: LINUX featuring ORACLE 7

From: David T. Bath <dtb_at_bf.rmit.edu.au>
Date: 1995/08/03
Message-ID: <3vpa1l$qm_at_aggedor.rmit.EDU.AU>#1/1


mikephil_at_metropolis.nl (Mike Philippens) writes:

>georg_at_deerwood.hanse.de (Georg Rehfeld) wrote:
 

>>Nice to see Oracle playing with Linux, so there is hope to see a cheap
>>Oracle distributon some day? And, yes, the object format seems to be the
>>remaining problem, I did not have the time to try cross-compiling/
>>linking with the GNU libc/gas/ld built for SCO, but I think this should
>>be possible.
 

>Since I'm new to this group (not to Oracle), I haven't followed this
>thread. Has anybody got Oracle 7 running on a Linux machine ?? What
>Oracle version do you need to do this, because I'm not aware of a
>Linux version.

Last I heard (rumor, rumor) there was an iCBS2 (?I can be sco too?) layer that let Linux run Santa Crud software like WordImperfect, etc, etc.

:wq

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