Re: Oracle on AS/400?

[John Earl <johnearl@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Gallagher, Debbie wrote:

>      You're right that for this client the NT on IPCS is not on. The client
>      is way too big for that.
>
>      Can Oracle run on the native AS/400 side? I know it would be better to
>      use the DB2 database but that's not the way the vendor's product is
>      written. The customer loves her AS/400, and this particular vendor has
>      a good chance of being selected.

Oracle databases do not run natively on the AS/400.   Oracle had a project a
couple of years back to do this, but they abandoned it.   My guess as for why it
was scrapped is that DB2/400 is free with every AS/400, and free is pretty hard
to compete against (just ask netscape! :).

jte



>      Debbie Gallagher
>
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> Subject: Re: Oracle on AS/400?
> Author:  "R. Bruce Hoffman; Jr." [SMTP:rbruceh@ibm.net] at Internet-CA
> Date:    7/2/99 4:11 PM
>
> Gallagher, Debbie wrote:
> >
> >      What I'd like to be able to do for the client is just give them some
> >      high level info such as "hey, everyone says it's a piece of cake" or
> >      "here are a few good questions for the vendor". They will have to
> >      investigate in more detail if the vendor is selected for demo or
> more.
> >
>
> Start by asking them if their intent is to put an IPCS running NT on the
> AS/400 and loading Oracle to the NT server inside the AS/400.
>
> Yes, in theory, this can be done.  But if it is a large customer, NT
> (400 or no) will choke on scaling for the Oracle server.
>
> Could be just the usual ploy.  Put it up.  It runs so bad.  Hey, how
> about a Unix server?  Never mind it had nothing to do with the 400, just
> NT.
>
>
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