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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. Client side tools needed! by d3xt3r · · Score: 3, Interesting
    Glad to see Oracle is finally making a public release of 9i for OS X, but what I really want are the development tools.

    Oracle has given us a cross-platform version of Enterprise Manager, but it still sucks on anything other than Windows. The OEM included with 9i, Release 2 for Linux constantly locks up, or takes too long to conduct simple operations.

    I think that OS X represents a great OS to finally replace MS Windows as the developement platform of choice. What we need are things like OEM for OS X, not just the database.

    I hope these tools come soon.

  2. DBD::Oracle by hondo77 · · Score: 3, Interesting

    When do I get to put DBD::Oracle on my Mac? That's what this Perl guy wants to know.

    --
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  3. Re:Database Hardware by drsmithy · · Score: 2, Interesting
    There's zero reason to put SCSI drives inside an Xserve. You're not doing any IO-bound tasks on the root drive anyway.

    I would propose to you that a significant number of customers could and would be performing some serious I/O on the ca. 150GB you could fit inside an Xserve with SCSI drives. Why spend extra on an external RAID chassis just to serve up some files to a few hundred users ?

    Software RAID costs less and performs the same.

    Unfortunately OS X's software RAID is pretty dismal. Unless it's improved markedly in 10.2.

    If you really need performance, you use a hardware RAID controller.

    Which is why they should have put an IDE RAID controller into the Xserve. Shit, it's not like a 4-channel 3ware card is particularly expensive, so an OEM on-the-board equivalent should have been par for the course.
    It's just another example of Apple only going halfway towards a great solution. Killing the floppy with the iMac was another (great that they killed it - absolutely stupid that they didn't *replace* it).