No, Oracle 8i isn't available for NT/Alpha and it won't be -- we got saddled
with one of those boxes and just got it working before MS and Compaq pulled the
plug.  (ordered before the merger with Digital was announced) There will be no
more updates for NT/Alpha, and (likely) no new products unless someone does
another about-face.  If you can get it to run Linux you can use it for a fast
web or mail server, but Oracle doesn't support Linux/Alpha either, just
Linux/Intel for now.

If you're lucky, you bought it before MS strongarmed Digital into making the
architecture and bios windows - only, and you can (maybe) get Tru64 running on
it instead (MS raised a stink about how we might be buying it with unix and
pirating NT, so Digital had to make the boxes run only one or the other or lose
the NT license).  But if you bought back then it's probably time to upgrade
anyway, 'cause your processors are no faster than about 300 Mhz :-).

We wound up replacing it with Intel boxes.  You have to crank the Mhz higher to
get the same throughput, but Intel's done it.  I wonder if the I/O is as good
as it would have been with the Alpha box, though.

dwaynec wrote:

> Would someone please answer the following: is there an Oracle8i release for
> Alpha Windows NT?  If not, will there be one and when?
>
> I have searched MetaLink for this and it lists Oracle 8.0.5 for Alpha
> Windows NT as the current version.
>
> Thanks for your help.
>
> Dwayne
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