Re: Oracle on the iSeries !

[Simon Coulter <shc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wednesday, February 25, 2004, at 09:01  AM, 
michaelr_41@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

> Yes it does...it operates natively on pSeries hardware which is the 
> same
> as iSeries hardware. Hardware is hardware - what makes an iSeries an
> iSeries is OS/400. And of course Oracle won't run under OS/400.

What makes an iSeries an iSeries is SLIC.

Why anyone would consider Oracle a reasonable alternative to DB2/400 or 
Linux a reasonable alternative to OS/400 beggars belief.

Regards,
Simon Coulter.
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