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Oracle 9i Makes it to Mac OS X
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."
If you have the a dev release of 10.2 there is a ODBC control app in the utilities folder, likey implemented with this in mind.
However as of now it seems to lack any drivers.
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Beyond the argument of XServer speed, there will soon be the requirement for SCSI drives for the XServe. IDE just doesn't cut it under decent loads.
There's zero reason to put SCSI drives inside an Xserve. You're not doing any IO-bound tasks on the root drive anyway. If you need IO performance, you use an external Fibre Channel JBOD or RAID. (Internal RAID card? What's the point? Software RAID costs less and performs the same. If you really need performance, you use a hardware RAID controller.)
I personally would love to see Apple offer this equipment, but surely sales #'s will have to go up for the XServe..
Like, oh I don't know, Xserve RAID, maybe?
(Can't find a picture of Xserve RAID on Apple's site, since it hasn't been released yet. But if you saw or attended the Xserve roll-out, you've seen it. It's a 2 Gb storage system with dual RAID controllers and 1.6 TB of capacity per disk chassis.)