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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. Re:Client side tools needed! by droleary · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Glad to see Oracle is finally making a public release of 9i for OS X, but what I really want are the development tools.

    Then what you really should be doing is asking Apple to move WebObjects out the the Java ghetto they stuck it in and divorce EOF from WOF. EOF was amazingly adept at database-independent development, so getting it back would get you access to not only Oracle, but most other databases that came to the OS X platform. Pitty Apple got so entranced by the Java/Web angle, and has yet to make corrections after the Internet bubble burst. You can still scrounge up a copy of WebObjects 4.5.1, but I don't know if it'll be (or needs to be) update to work with 10.2; again, bug Apple.