>>> >>> >>>could be worse, have you seen their solaris x86 line? Since there was no 9i port to Solx86, there was a 4 solid year lapse in production to that platform. Some regression is not a surprise. Are you referring to Sol10 for x86 with Oracle on Opteron? Now, kudos to anyone that can guess the Oracle's master plan behind not porting 9i to Solx86... I know ... >>>============================================================ >>>Ray Stell stellr@xxxxxx (540) 231-4109 Tempus fugit 28^D >>>-- >>>//www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l >>> -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l