Re: Oracle dumping Unix?????
Date: 1996/07/08
Message-ID: <4rpqth$rl1_at_inet-nntp-gw-1.us.oracle.com>#1/1
} Paul O'Donnell <podon_at_roch875.mc.xerox.com> wrote: }
} >I heard a rumor yesterday that Oracle had just announced that it was going
} >to switch from Unix to NT.
Must have been someone from MicroSoft :-).
} >Can someone verify this? Add details?
Massive Disclaimer: I do *not* speak for Oracle!
I know of no such announcement.
Other people in this thread have commented on some of the business and technical reasons why "dropping" UNIX would be suboptimimal in the extreme. I don't expect that Orcle will change its primary server development platform from UNIX in the forseeable future.
However, there *is* growing recognition in Oracle that NT is an excellent database platform for the workgroup, especially in a MicroSoft-only shop. There are a number of changes taking place in Oracle that recognize and respond to this.
Of course, if you're talking about client-side tools ({Developer,Discoverer,Designer}/2000) then the move to Windows as the base development platform was made some time ago.
-p
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