RE: Oracle on the iSeries !

[rick.baird@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]

I'm wondering why anyone would WANT to run Oracle natively....

what does Oracle offer that DB2/400 (or whatever they call it now) doesn't
offer, except for the need to hire a $100k-per-year DBA to keep it from
crashing?

;)

Rick

---original message--------------
Depends on what you consider native.

Certainly it doesn't run under OS/400.

But I think some arguments could be made that Linux runs as a "native" OS
on
the iSeries hardware.  Thus Oracle on Linux on iSeries hardware could be
native also.

Charles


> -----Original Message-----
> From: John Brandt Sr. [mailto:pgmr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Tuesday, February 24, 2004 1:32 PM
> To: 'Midrange Systems Technical Discussion'
> Subject: RE: Oracle on the iSeries !
>
>
> But it doesn't run native.
> John Brandt
> iStudio400.com
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Chuck Lewis [mailto:clewis@xxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Tuesday, February 24, 2004 12:06 PM
> To: midrange-l
> Subject: Oracle on the iSeries !
>
>
> Interesting news from Search400 today:
>
>
>
> ".a developer's release of Oracle 9.2.04 for IBM's PowerPC
> chip that runs on
> SuSE Linux on the iSeries and pSeries"
>