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Oracle 9i Makes it to Mac OS X

Posted by pudge on from the i-knew-the-day-would-come-like-a-hellfire-upon-the-lands dept.

mcockerill writes "Oracle just posted a development version of their latest RDBMS (Oracle 9i release 2) for Mac OS X (300+megs of it). It requires Jaguar to run. No fancy installation wizards or GUI config apps as yet; the whole thing is command line only for now. But still, this is a major development as far as serious use of Mac OS X in a server environment is concerned. It's long been rumored to be on the way -- after all, Ellison is on Apple's Board -- but frankly I never thought I'd see the day."

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  1. CLI Undesirable? by Xunker · · Score: 3, Funny

    "the whole thing is command line only for now."

    This is bad? Come on! We're been waiting for a real command line on a Mac for, like, 20 years, and now we need a lickable interface for a database engine?

    Some of us dream in CLI, you know? :)

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