Re: 8i NOT include JVM? An "option"?

Well I just checked it out today and you ae correct........

THERE IS NO JAVA VM in 8i

Its available as an add on only and as you say th price is pretty close to the same as fro the original product. This has got to be the biggest stunt ever pulled by Oracle.
Whats the i for in 8i if it actually has nothing. Godsake are there no limits to Larry's greed. You now can upgrade to a product that is no different from the one you have already got .... THE ONLY DIFFERENCE IS THIS ONE WILL ACCEPT ADDON WHEN YOU BUY THEM. Makes you feel there should be some law against this.... Biggest argument for leaving M$ alone and not splitting them up is that the industry needs them to keep people like Larry even remotely honest...

Rob

Randall J. Parr wrote in message <36F03C9A.5A05EB51_at_temporal.com>...
>I have been trying to find information about Oracle 8i and specifically
>8i on Linux (soon to be available?) and the differences between Standard
>Edition and Enterprise Edition.
>
>I came accros some, for me at least, disturbing information.
>
>When I went to the Oracle Store (trying to see the difference in price
>between Standard Edition and Entrerprise Edition) I found references to
>something called JServer (NOT JDeveloper). The Oracle Store description
>reads as if JServer is the JVM for 8i. I could find no other reference
>to JServer on the Oracle sites but I did notice that the Oracle 8i has
>started including references to the Java "option".
>
>This disturbs me because Java in the server has been the entire emphasis
>and reason for living for 8i. BUT it appears that it has become a server
>option (which costs almost as much as the server did in the first
>place).
>
>Is this true? If I upgrade, under my maintenance, etc., am I going to
>get a version of 8i without Java thus being forced to buy the server all
>over again to get a version of 8i with Java?
>
>R.Parr
>Temporal Arts
>
>
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Received on Thu Mar 18 1999 - 21:41:59 CST