How about running beta's of Oracle 7 on a dual proc Sequent Symmetry box - 2 x 25MHz 486's - as a production server :-) Dougie McGibbon -----Original Message----- From: Jared Still [mailto:jkstill@xxxxxxxxx] Sent: Wednesday, October 12, 2005 8:16 AM To: kevinc@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Cc: Oracle-L@Freelists. Org (E-mail) Subject: Re: linux vs MS (slight twist on the topic) Showoff. ;) On 10/11/05, Kevin Closson <kevinc@xxxxxxxxxxxxx <mailto:kevinc@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > wrote: I was running Oracle 7 on Linux via the Xenix emulation bits, sometime around 1995 IIRC. cool...not that is what I'm talking about. I ported Oracle 5.1.7 to Xenix large model x.out in 1988 :-) Porting...hmmm.. make/fail/forensics/repeat :_) -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l <//www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l> -- Jared Still Certifiable Oracle DBA and Part Time Perl Evangelist