Message-ID: <3AF38A24.768D6249@telusplanet.net> From: Hans Forbrich X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en] (Win95; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.databases.oracle.server Subject: Re: Windows Me and Oracle -- unbelievable! References: <9cq90o$5dnc$1@newssvr06-en0.news.prodigy.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Lines: 28 Date: Sat, 05 May 2001 05:00:42 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 161.184.164.67 X-Trace: news0.telusplanet.net 989038842 161.184.164.67 (Fri, 04 May 2001 23:00:42 MDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 04 May 2001 23:00:42 MDT Why are you surprised? Even Microsoft says ME is a home/game OS and if you want to have professional stuff running, use Win2K. I suspect ME will migrate to XBox; do you think you'd have Oracle on XBox? (And if MS puts SQL Server on XBox, then we all know what MS thinks of SQL Server, don't we?) MS has been struggling with getting real money out of businesses while keeping home PC junkies happy with low prices. Hence the divergent OSs, Win2K and ME. They need Win2K workstation to be significantly different (possibly runs some things that ME wont) or companies wont pay the higher price - the security and other niceties can be covered by add ons (Norton/Symantec/whatever). /Hans Steve wrote: > Since I have problem installing V8.16 client on Windows Me PC, I get word > officially from Oracle that it is not supported for whatsoever Oracle stuff > on Windows Me. Wow! > > Still I hope someone somewhere may have options either knowing how to get > around to install it or upgrade to Win2K first (is it free then). > > Please comment. > > Thanks, > > Steve