But ROacle hasn't. 8.1.7 is the terminal release on Slowaris.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Richard Ji [mailto:richard.ji_at_mobilespring.com]
> Sent: Friday, February 07, 2003 2:25 PM
> To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
> Subject: RE: RAC on linux?
>
>
> Sun in fact want to discontinue the Solaris for Intel
> platform a year ago
> but receive a lot of critisim from the user community. So they
> revived it.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> Sent: Friday, February 07, 2003 1:49 PM
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>
>
>
> I first installed Solaris 2.5 on Intel (AMD actually) on a
> 386/40 with 8Mb
> RAM. It ran fine. Sun pretty well shot its Intel market the
> same way IBM
> blew its OS2 market: Overpriced the crap out of the OS and development
> tools. By the time they woke up and noticed that the market
> had moved on to
> other stuff, it was too late for a price drop to do any good.
> I'm wonder
> why Sun keeps the X86 version around. Maybe Scott is just stubborn.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> Anyone have ideas on this?
> http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/cmp/20030206/tc
_cmp/iwk200302
06s0012
Sun is now going after the intel market too. Is this just a new version of
their Solaris x86, or a completely new build?
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