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."

Comments

Saw this comming...

[Quicksilver31337]

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.

Re:Database Hardware

[foobar104]

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.)

CLI Undesirable?

[Xunker]

"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? :)

Client side tools needed!

[d3xt3r]

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.

Re:Client side tools needed!

[droleary]

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.

DBD::Oracle

[hondo77]

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