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From: rad@genco.bungi.com (Bob Daniel)
Newsgroups: comp.databases
Subject: Re: Oracle v5 -> v6 question
Message-ID: <131@genco.bungi.com>
Date: 19 Nov 90 21:43:06 GMT
References: <28232@usc>
Reply-To: rad@genco.bungi.com (Bob Daniel)
Organization: Gentry & Assoc. Excelsior Springs, MO
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In article <28232@usc> mcitron@phad.hsc.usc.edu (Mark Citron) writes:
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>We are upgrading from Oracle version 5 to version 6 for SCO Unix.
>Oracle tells me that we need to buy SCO's development system
>just to do the installation (needs a c compiler and linker)
>That seems a like a waste of money for a product that we have no 
>real use for. Can this really be true?

I don't remember how version 5 installed but v6 needs a C compiler during
the installation to 'make' the 'osh'.  We have the entire Oracle development
system but I imagine installing runtimes would not require a compiler.