Date: Sat, 27 Nov 1999 17:53:21 -0800 From: Mike Smith <msmith@freebsd.org> To: Julian Elischer <julian@whistle.com> Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: State of Alpha support and Oracle. Message-ID: <199911280153.RAA96659@mass.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 27 Nov 1999 17:03:00 PST." <Pine.BSF.4.10.9911271643440.544-100000@current1.whistle.com>
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> > 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
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