Re: Oracle 8

"Ram Kalapatapu" <ise118_at_vtaix.cc.vt.edu> wrote in message news:slrnb8rq3p.p6m.ise118_at_vtaix.cc.vt.edu...
> Hi,
> I have been running oracle 8 for linux on my home PC for a few years.
> Recently, I had to reinstall my OS and I had saved only my database. I
went
> to oracle's website and could only find 8i and 9i versions of the
software.
> Is there someplace where 8 is archived for download?
>
> The machine is a pentium 100 with 96mb RAM. So I cannot think of upgrading
> to 8i or 9i. Besides I use oracle only for learning and am happy with 8
and
> don't care much for the features in the newer versions.
>
> Thanks.

Something smells distinctly fishy here. You've had Oracle 8 installed for a few *years*??? Yet you are only using it for 'learning'. That's a pretty long learning curve you've got there. You are aware, I hope, that you require a licence if you are using that database to store anything meaningful to yourself? Photographs, music files, whatever: if you use it *as* a database, it must be licensed.

If your database was truly for learning with, rather than for actually storing something in, then I can't quite see why you'd claim you're 'happy with 8.0'. Learning means updating your knowledge, as well as just acquiring it. If you are genuinely 'learning', then you should be very UNhappy that you are stuck with a version of Oracle that is at least 5 versions behind the times.

The 8.0 stuff has long ago been de-supported, and you won't be able to get hold of it by any normal means. Bring your 'learning' up to date: spring for a slightly newer and higher-spec machine, and get hold of 8.1.7 at a bare minimum. And pay for the licence that I strongly suspect you should have paid for long ago.

HJR Received on Fri Apr 04 2003 - 14:35:26 CST