Re: Oracle 8 *Top 10 wishlist*

From: Stephane Lajeunesse <slajeunesse_at_sympatico.ca>
Date: 1997/03/02
Message-ID: <33199586.7EF72D4D@sympatico.ca>#1/1

Atif Ahmad Khan wrote:
>
> 1. We want a Linux version of Oracle 8 please !

Yes.. We all want it!

FWIW, I talked to somebody at Oracle about a Linux release of Oracle Workgroup server. Is reply to me was that they were afraid of the fact that Linux is a 'moving target'. What scares them is the fact that the Unix admin can recompile a new kernel when the newest version is released thus possibly breaking the Oracle server itself. This for them is not what they want. They want something more stable (kernel version, library version). On the other hand, isn't this what Caldera is doing? Giving anybody who whishes to develop for Linux commercially a 'stable' non-moving platform???

Steph. Received on Sun Mar 02 1997 - 00:00:00 CST