Re: Bugs w/Oracle NLMs?

Jamie Stahl <103107.1135_at_CompuServe.COM> writes:

>I am looking at Oracle and Sybase to run on a Novell server and
>would like to know of any fatal bugs or any major headaches with
 Oricle.
>My email address is 103107.1135_at_compuserve.com

We've had very little trouble running Oracle 6, 7 and now 7.1 on our Netware machine. Historically, there were problems when Novell released an upgrade patch that would cause incompatibilities with Oracle. What happens in many organizations is the "Oracle expert" is often not a "Netware expert" and vice versa.

Now Oracle's installs check the current versions of other NLMs (or at least ask you to do the same) to ensure compatibility.

Some have complained of SQL*Net losing connections but this is often attributed to lack of memory. I would suggest that Oracle on Netware requires more RAM than a similar UNIX config.

Any more specific questions, please e-mail me.

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