Re: X86 Platform for Oracle 7.x (SCO or Solaris, Which is better choice?)

Celestial Brewery (Bill Anglea) writes:

>Geting ready to purchase either SCO or Solaris for x86 specifically so
>that I can run Oracel 7.x enterprise server at home and get some real work
>done. Does anybody have a solid recommendation on either SCO or Solaris?
>Which one (if either) is more closely aligned with SVR4? Which one would
>be the most reasonable from a cost stand-point considering at least a
>2 user development system?

SCO is SysV R3.2 based. Solaris is real SVR4. There is a third option, Novell Unixware, which is lighter than Solaris, Unixware 2.0 is multiprocessor multithreading, and Oracle is available for Unixware. Both Solaris and Unixware are quite up-to-date while SCO keeps you firmly in the '80s, and you have to pay big $$$ for everything. Why pay $1000's for TCP/IP, more $$$ for X, more $$$ for header files, it's free in the Solaris and Unixware.

R

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   Rob J. Nauta					rob_at_redwood.nl
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