Path: news.easynews.com!easynews!news.he.net!news-hog.berkeley.edu!ucberkeley!enews.sgi.com!sdd.hp.com!news-west.eli.net!not-for-mail Message-ID: <3CAC887F.F35529DC@exesolutions.com> From: damorgan X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.79 [en] (Win95; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.databases.oracle.server Subject: Re: Setting up 9i server References: <3cac60bf$0$16687$4c41069e@reader1.ash.ops.us.uu.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Lines: 21 Date: Thu, 04 Apr 2002 17:08:13 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 156.74.250.7 X-Complaints-To: yvonne.tracy@ci.seattle.wa.us X-Trace: news-west.eli.net 1017940093 156.74.250.7 (Thu, 04 Apr 2002 10:08:13 MST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 04 Apr 2002 10:08:13 MST Organization: City of Seattle NewsReader Service Xref: easynews comp.databases.oracle.server:142050 X-Received-Date: Thu, 04 Apr 2002 10:06:01 MST (news.easynews.com) You can run 7 and 9i on one box ... but I wouldn't. There is almost nothing written for Oracle 7 that should not run on 9i unless is uses the data dictionary directly. Oracle does an excellent job of maintaining backward compatibility. I would test it out before assuming you need two install a non-supported version of the software. Daniel Morgan Mark Grover wrote: > I just bought a spiffy new fast computer with the intention of using it for > an Oracle 9i server. Here's my problem; I have several internally created > programs that I can easily port to 9i, but I have a purchased canned program > that runs on Oracle 7 only. Can I run both Oracle 7 server and Oracle 9i > server on the same box? Does it make sense to do that? Or can I copy the > Oracle 7 instance to the 9i box and run it without upgrading it to 9i? What > is the best solution to this problem? (Besides the obvious solution of > buying an upgrade to my program so that it runs on 9i)