>
> I am not sure of thw state of things but if someone wanted to run Oracle-8
> and had an idea in their mind that they'd like to run it in an Alpha,
> tehn teh following questions would need to be answered (and I dont know
> the answers)
>
> 1/ does FreeBSD-alpha support SMB
Samba works just fine. But I suspect that you meant "SMP", and the
answer there is "no".
> 2/ is there a binary version of Oracle we can run on the alpha?
The Tru64 version _might_ work.
> 3/ does the alpha give a big increase in speed over the same dollars spent
> on x86?
Not under Oracle at the low end, no.
If all you want is an oracle-like database however, I would recommend
that you look at Linter (www.relcom.ru, IIRC). OCI-compatible, and much,
much cheaper.
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