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From: lees@msudoc.ee.mich-state.edu (John Lees)
Newsgroups: comp.databases
Subject: Oracle under PRIMOS and UNIX
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Date: 8 Mar 88 13:33:18 GMT
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Organization: MABC-Select Sires
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Keywords: oracle, primos


We are currently running a COBOL shop that is so intertwingled with the
PRIMOS operating system that we are trapped with this vendor (PR1ME). We
want to be able to move to a different operating system, i.e., UNIX, and
are looking to get there via Oracle. (Oracle is available under PRIMOS, and
under UNIX, VMS, et cetera, so we figure if we move our applications to
Oracle we'll have a much more portable applications system.)

Does anyone have any experience doing this kind of thing, or even of running
Oracle under PRIMOS (rev 21 on a 4050, 2.4 MIPS with 16MB)?

(We hear that Prime will be releasing native-mode UNIX on their 50-series
machines some day, so we may never change hardware vendors. But we do want
the option.)

Please respond by email; I'll summarize.

John Lees
Senior Programmer/Analyst
MABC-Select Sires
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