RE: Oracle dumping Unix?????

On Saturday, July 06, 1996, Gordon E. Hooker wrote...
> Paul O'Donnell <podon_at_roch875.mc.xerox.com> wrote:
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> >
> >I heard a rumor yesterday that Oracle had just announced that it was
 going
> >to switch from Unix to NT.
> >
> >Can someone verify this? Add details?
> >
> >
> >
> Think about it!
>
> When you consider that Oracle has been spending heaps of money to
 develop
> parrallel processing database engines, and a engine that will handle all
 types
> of data in large quantities. Why would they dump the platform that
 allows this
> development to continue?
>
> IMO NT is still a workgroup operating system....
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No way. UNIX is Oracle's mult-billion-dollar cash cow. 85% of today's SQL RDBMS engines are running on UNIX platforms !!!

You read alot about Netware and NT Server as Application Servers and they are gaining momentum, but they have a long way to go before they overtake UNIX on the Database Server front, scalability and reliability are only part of their problem.

NT has lot's of potential, especially since a large portion of their kernel architecture was modeled after
various UNIX kernel's, but as of today it still stands for "N"ot "T"here .....yet. Give it a few more years and who knows.

Oracle recently ported Oracle 7.3 to NT with some nice admin tools, but this is just 1 of 80+ platforms
they support. And more than 80% of the C-code used to write Oracle is the SAME across all platforms. Received on Thu Jul 11 1996 - 00:00:00 CEST