RE: Oracle on VMS?

Have you checked out RAC on VMS? Since the RAC's clustering technology was born in VMS, the docs (from memory, 9i) had no prerequisite setup for a VMS cluster. Not that I'm advocating RAC, but that little tidbit was interesting, given the setup needed on Linux for RAC.

The last I used Oracle on VMS was 8.0.5 on VMS 7.2. I hope Oracle's at least using OFA on VMS now. The directory structure of an Oracle install on VMS was way different from Linux/HPUX/Solaris back then.

GL!

Rich
Former 10-year VMS admin

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[mailto:oracle-l-bounce_at_freelists.org] On Behalf Of Paul Baumgartel Sent: Thursday, March 31, 2005 8:00 AM
To: Mercadante, Thomas F
Cc: Oracle-L (E-mail)
Subject: Re: Oracle on VMS?

Tom,

Actually, the argument is being made by the data center people because a major back-end system already runs on VMS. We currently run Oracle on Windows and want to move to RAC, which to me means Linux; the data center would prefer that we not introduce another OS. I agree about stability, and the OS expertise exists in the data center, but I think the availability and support issues will carry the day. BTW, Oracle10g is still not available for VMS.

Thanks for your 2 cents!

Paul

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