Re: Oracle 9i on XP Home?

"HansF" <News.Hans_at_telus.net> wrote in message news:pan.2005.10.03.18.29.25.219820_at_telus.net...
> Technically possible.
>
> However, as it's not certified, you can get 'exceptional results'
> occurring with no support from Oracle and very little sympathy from cdo
> group regulars.
>
> Why little sympathy? There are enough issues and things to understand in
> a certified environment that professionals tend to avoid introducing
> additional uncertainty.
>
> If this is for private study, many of us encourage you switch to Linux.
> Specifically WhiteBox Linux, Tao Linux or CentOS, all of which are free
> clones of the certified Red Hat EL3. From an app perspective, Oracle
> works the same on these as on Windows. And there is very little
> difference from a DBA's prespective as well.

Not my descision. We just brought in a contractor. We don't have any extra devlopment boxes, and she said she had one of her own. She just brought in a laptop with XP Home on it this morning. I'm sort of kicking myself for assuming that no self-respecting developer would bring in a machine with XP Home on it. We've already had a lot of problems just getting it to share files with other computers (all running Pro). Oracle is installed and running, but SQL Plus won't work unless it's done through the command prompt, and we're not sure that our Java web app will be able to connect. This whole day has been a PIA.

Paul Received on Mon Oct 03 2005 - 14:33:22 CDT