Re: Oracle under Mac OSX (Intel)

On 3/21/06, Stephen Barr <ascaroth969_at_yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
>
> I wait with bated breath for VMware under Mac OSX.
>
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> Sent: 20 March 2006 18:03
> To: davidsharples_at_gmail.com
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> Subject: Re: Oracle under Mac OSX (Intel)
>
> Hi,
>
> Intel Macs are shipped with some binary translation software called
> Rosetta, which allows you to run PowerPC binaries on Intel Macs.
>
> Unfortunately it doesn't support running java progs, so you wouldn't
> be able to run the installer.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Phil
>
> On 20/03/06, David Sharples <davidsharples_at_gmail.com> wrote:
> > how is it going to run? the software wont run on a mac as it is compiled
> > against a different chipset.
> >
> > Oracle will need to recompile the software on an intel mac
> >
> > On 3/20/06, Stephen Barr <ascaroth969_at_yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
> > > Anyone know if oracle (client or server) runs on the
> > > intel macs yet?
> >
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Nowadays quite alot of Oracle DB owner switch to Linux
And seems like SQL Server is gaining market share

regards,

Sinardy

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