Re: Learn Oracle?

"Dusan Bolek" <pagesflames_at_usa.net> wrote in message news:1e8276d6.0205262348.7fadd148_at_posting.google.com...
> "Howard J. Rogers" <dba_at_hjrdba.com> wrote in message
news:<acrgnf$2cb$1_at_lust.ihug.co.nz>...
> > Sorry. I thought you said you wanted to learn Oracle. Fat chance of
doing
> > that on a Win9x platform. Dump 98, and load XP or 2000. Then you can
learn
> > the Enterprise Edition properly. You are crippling yourself before you
even
> > start if you insist on sticking with 98.
>
> Has been Oracle 9i already certified on WIN XP ? I thought that
> WIN2000 is the only Windows for Oracle EE.

9i release 2 is certified for XP. Prior to that, 2000 only, correct.

> > Any reasonably capable PC, with 300MHz or faster processor and stacks
upon
> > stacks of RAM.
>
> In fact, Oracle 9i 9.0.1 (first release) works with no problem on PC
> only equipped with 256MB RAM. No big performance, but for learning
> very sufficient.
> I still do not have new 9i second release, so I do not know if some
> "memory optimalisation" was used and 512MB is a minimum.
>
> > I just downloaded Oracle 9i release 2, all 1.6Gb (or so) of it, and on a
56K
> > dialup modem, with GetRight download software to cope when the line got
> > dropped. It was painful. I wouldn't recommend it. It took about 4 days,
24
> > hours a day.
>
> You should get a medal for patience. Three ISO images on dialup is a
> great achievement. Looks like you have been teacher for so long time,
> that your patience developed to really high level. :-)) However looks
> strange when Oracle guy must use a dialup to get Oracle software.
> I'm using 128kbs line for downloading Oracle releases and it still
> takes a lot of time to get three ISOs.
>
> > No, they are fully working versions. The only restriction is the
licence:
> > thou shalt not use them to develop commercial software which earns you a
> > packet, without sharing some of it back with Oracle first.
>
> I'm not sure of this. I've read a licence few times and it seems to me
> like developing software is free and you must buy software just to
> move to production.
>

True enough, I think... hence the careful use of the phrase 'develop software...which earns you a packet': presumably, you only start earning the dosh when it is sold as a production system.

> > Maybe you should become a consultant instead?
>
> Heh, that was so Sybrandish. :-)))))
>

It was a *joke*!!! Some of my best friends are consultants. ;-)

Regards
HJR
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>
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Received on Mon May 27 2002 - 16:29:05 CDT