Re: Oracle on Athlon 64 Windows 64

Joe wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I wondered what the situation is with regard to running Oracle on the Athlon
> 64. Is there a 64 bit version for windows?
> Does it work out of the box with the beta version of Windows 64?
>
> What sort of performance improvements (if any) have people experienced?
>
> I was wondering whether its worthwhile (performance and stability wise)
> loading windows 64 beta and running under that OS.

You can find out what is available by going to store.oracle.com or otn.oracle.com and clicking on downloads.

But why suffer the extra cost of Intel architecture when you can get into a 64 bit o/s for far less money with a fully supported operating system ... look at the Mac G5 running OS/X.

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Daniel A. Morgan
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