Re: Oracles iFS

Just imagine that you are still running ORACLE on a WANG box !!!

john.j.kanagaraj_at_shell.com.bn wrote:

> Guy,
>
> >Does anyone else find it slightly worrying that Oracle, who boast about
> >supporting 90 platforms (albiet 60 of those are different flavors of
> >Unix), seem to spend most of their time & effort on NT and Solaris
> these
> >days? They'll ship product on these two platforms, then it will follow
> >on the rest whenever they get around to it. We mostly use them anyway,
> >but that's not the point: one of the reasons for the adoption of
> >Oracle was the ability to leverage/coexist with other platforms. Hmm.
>
> Back in the late 80's and early 90's (up until 92-93 mebbe), VAX VMS
> was Oracle's platform of preference. Releases and patches used to come
> out on VMS before they reached UNIX (and there were a lot of variants
> in those days)... Guess it is just business sense and fully
> understandable!
>
> John Kanagaraj
> Brunei Shell Petroleum
> http://www.geocities.com/john_sharmila
>
> God so loved the world that He didn't send a committee! (See John 3:16
> for details)
> ** Opinions expressed here are solely mine and not necessarily those of
> my employer **
>
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Received on Tue Jun 13 2000 - 20:04:34 CDT