Re: Is there a Linux Client of Oracle
Date: Wed, 17 Jun 1998 00:00:38 GMT
Message-ID: <35870725.3FF39B21_at_access-laserpress.com>
Joel Garry wrote:
>
> On Tue, 16 Jun 1998 05:37:46 GMT, Dong Baohua <dbaohua_at_usa.net> wrote:
> >Sybase port its client to Linux, and MSSQL Server works well with
> >Sybase Client for linux, why not Oracle port its client to Linux?
>
> Because Larry Ellison doesn't read Infoworld, where people like a senior
> manager from Boeing say "we would use Linux if we could get versions of
> Oracle that run on it." (June 8, 1998 p. 102).
>
> Stupid stupid stupid.
But instead they just use Solaris and/or Windows NT, so this doesn't affect Oracle negatively at all. There's no financial reason for Oracle to produce a Linux version of the Oracle server or client software, and the support hassles would be even more of a nightmare than supporting the NT platform.
>
> BTW, comp.databases.oracle has been superceded by comp.databases.oracle.misc.
>
> jg
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Received on Wed Jun 17 1998 - 02:00:38 CEST