Agreed! I'm trying to run Designer 6 with ANY version of Personal Oracle.
It isn't ludicrous. I'm a traveller and my laptop, which has worked fine
with D2.1.1 and 8.0.4, suddenly won't cut it. 'Upgrading' to NT is a
problem.
Dave Waterworth <pscdaw_at_ihug.com.au> wrote in message
news:7un0u7$k9$1_at_toto.tig.com.au...
> But Personal Oracle is not a server, it's primary design is for the
> workstation market. How many users who want a light weight database use NT
> or Linux as an operating system? If they don't support personal Oracle on
> Win95 why bother having personal Oracle at all? Personally I'd prefer NT
> with Oracle Server on my workstation, and Win98 with Personal Oracle on my
> laptop (NT + Oracle Server brings even high spec laptops to there knees!).
>
> Kovacs Richard <krichard_at_buga.csoma.elte.hu> wrote in message
> news:7ujovk$mbp$3_at_goliat.eik.bme.hu...
> > HI!
> >
> > gox <gox_at_tcp.co.uk> wrote:
> > |>Personal Oracle8i does not run on Win95. I don't believe
> > |>there is any "solution" to this. Oracle just decided not to
> > |>support that platform.
> > | Absolutely ridiculous isn't it.
> > I don't really see your point in this.
> > Why is this ridiculous? People usually do not need to use a database
> > _server_ on Win95 or even on Win98. They are not th Operating systems
for
> a
> > server... Well, using WinNT or Unix or Linux or VMS .. yeah. they are
> worth
> > it.
> > But Win95?? Why would anyone install a db server on a machine running
> Win95?
> >
> >
> > Ritschie
> >
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