Re: Oracle on Solaris x86

Alf-Kenneth Aabel (alf-ka_at_online.no) wrote:
: We are in need of a Unix server which can run an Oracle database. In
: general we are NT based, but since products are usually released
: earlier on Solaris than NT, a machine running Unix is necessary.
:
: Is this release thing also true for Solaris x86 and in particular for
: Oracle products on this platform? Is there anybody who are running
: Oracle on Solaris x86? Is a Pentium 200 MHx with 96 MB memory
: sufficient (we're not going to have many users, the use is for
: development)?
:
: The alternative is to buy a Sun SPARCStation, but an Intel based PC is
: preferrable.
:
: All comments would be greatly appreciated.
:

According to the below press release, Oracle Universal Server release 7.3.3 was used on Solaris Intel. Is this the latest version?

http://www.sun.com/smi/Press/sunflash/9703/sunflash.970305.1083.html

MOUNTAIN VIEW, CA -- March 5, 1997 -- Sun Microsystems, Inc., today announced that its SolarisTM operating environment produced the best TPC-C price/performance results to date running an Oracle database on a UNIX.-based Intel server. Sun's Solaris software set a new price/performance record, using Oracle Universal Server release 7.3.3 database running on an IBM PC Server 704. Received on Thu Mar 13 1997 - 00:00:00 CST