From owner-freebsd-current Sat Nov 27 17:52:49 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mass.cdrom.com (castles511.castles.com [208.214.165.75]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B46A714CCB for ; Sat, 27 Nov 1999 17:52:47 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from msmith@mass.cdrom.com) Received: from mass.cdrom.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mass.cdrom.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id RAA96659; Sat, 27 Nov 1999 17:53:21 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from msmith@mass.cdrom.com) Message-Id: <199911280153.RAA96659@mass.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.1.1 10/15/1999 To: Julian Elischer Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: State of Alpha support and Oracle. In-reply-to: Your message of "Sat, 27 Nov 1999 17:03:00 PST." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Sat, 27 Nov 1999 17:53:21 -0800 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > I am not sure of thw state of things but if someone wanted to run Oracle-8 > and had an idea in their mind that they'd like to run it in an Alpha, > tehn teh following questions would need to be answered (and I dont know > the answers) > > 1/ does FreeBSD-alpha support SMB Samba works just fine. But I suspect that you meant "SMP", and the answer there is "no". > 2/ is there a binary version of Oracle we can run on the alpha? The Tru64 version _might_ work. > 3/ does the alpha give a big increase in speed over the same dollars spent > on x86? Not under Oracle at the low end, no. If all you want is an oracle-like database however, I would recommend that you look at Linter (www.relcom.ru, IIRC). OCI-compatible, and much, much cheaper. -- \\ Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. \\ Mike Smith \\ Tell him he should learn how to fish himself, \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ and he'll hate you for a lifetime. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message