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Frank van Bortel wrote:

> Lars Mellergaard wrote:
> > I'm looking for an old, almost antique version of an Oracle RDBMS, it
> > is, as said in the subject Oracle 6.0.38 and it is for (hold on to you
> > hat) Sun OS 4.1.4.  If you have this CD lying somewhere then please let
> > me know, I really could use it.  Someone in our organisation has tried
> > to get it through Oracle, but he says that they don't have it.
>
> Be nice to the Oracle Support guys; they're bound to have it somewhere.
> Ask politely for a copy of the CD (if they have it), and bribe them with
> cakes for the department - worked for me while I worked for support ;)
> Ask them to contact, or give you an internal email address of, the european
> organization (particulary the Dutch support org - that's the eldest in
> Europe)

I believe Oracle 6.0 1988-ish, long before CDs became popular for software
releases. Oracle 6 wasn't released on CD to the best of my knowledge, just 8MM
tape. Oracle didn't start releasing software on CDs until around the
early-to-mid 90s with version 7 -- the date on our earliest CD, version 7.1.6,
is 1995. If I recall correctly (it's been several years), Oracle 7.1.0 was an
8mm tape release in 92 or 93.

This isn't to say that you won't find someone at Oracle who can burn a CD for
you; I'm just saying that asking for anyone to look for a CD with it is not
going to yield the desired result in all likelihood. Now, some folks might
still have the 8mm tape around.

Jonathan Ingram
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