Re: Oracle for Novell THAT BAD ?

ashar_at_netcom.com (Bayline Company) wrote:

>Hopefully the version that you PAY for isn't as bad as the freeware
>versions. I've downloaded the o7ws_nw from the site, it doesn't install
>properly, The Personal Oracle for the local PC works fine.
 

>The company I work for currently has Sybase 10, and is considering to
>replace it with Oracle on HP_UX. They've asked me to look at Oracle, and
>I've downloaded the Netware and Personal versions but I've found that the
>Netware verion doesn't even install properly.
 

>1. The NLMs don't even get installed in the ORACLE_HOME/NLM directory or
>in the ORACLE_HOME/NOVNLM directory. Matter of fact, nothing gets
>installed there.
 

>2. If I MANUALLY put the NLMs there from the CD or from the version
>downloaded, when I try an run the NLM's I alwys get,
>"Loader cannot find public symbol : RenameThread"
 

>Is Oracle for Netware really that bad or is it just these freeware
>versions for Netware that suck ?
 

>Ashar
 

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Ashar,

We used to have the OracleWare product and, while it wasn't as bad as you say, it still sucked (I have heard that Oracle has since dropped the product). We replaced it with a Digital Alpha server running Digital Unix and were very glad we did.

From what I understand, the biggest problem is with the Netware as an OS. It's just not made for that kind of work. At first I thought maybe it was the hardware (a Pentium machine), but I have since worked with Oracle for NT on another Pentium machine and found it to be good as well (although not as good as the Alpha).

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Mark Wagoner
mwagoner_at_iac.net