Re: Big DB on NT.

From: Magnus Bergh <magnusb_at_sbbs.se>
Date: Tue, 21 Sep 1999 22:50:35 +0200
Message-ID: <MPG.12520b1ff473b7d19896a1@news.sbbs.se>

In article <7s5abm$cqp$1_at_nnrp1.deja.com>, place4oracle_at_my-deja.com place4oracle_at_my-deja.com says...
> One of our customers have a Big DB on NT/Alpha.
> Because M$ will stop all work on NT alpha. Have they decide to move
> away from NT / Alpha.

I think it is actually Digital/Compaq that have decide not to continue porting NT to Alpha and not a MS decision. If I have understand it correctly it is the hardware vendors who pays for the port of NT (I think the same applied to the PowerPc platform).

To bad for those who had decided to run MS SQL Server on Alpha. Now they have to use an Intel platform or choose another db. Of course, one of the big reasons to use use Oracle is o/s and hardware independance.

Magnus Received on Tue Sep 21 1999 - 15:50:35 CDT