I was really happy to receive an email from the porting team today; reads in part:
10.2.0.4 Database (Single Instance) Release for Apple MAC OS X on Intel x86-64 is now available for download on OTN.
The physical media is to be dropped off to M&D next week.
This is a 64-bit release and provides a 32-bit client bundle as well for 32-bit customer applications. Also, available now are the 32-bit and 64-bit instant client downloads for 10.2.0.4.
The database is supported on the latest MAC OSX release - MAC OS X Leopard 10.5.4.
Thus, we finally have an Oracle Database Server release on Mac OS X/Intel. This is a happy day for a lot of people; I can only bask in their joy.
Update (4/13): Oracle ACE Raimonds Simanovskis (@rsim) has published a useful installation guide in his blog.
Comments (4)
AWESOME!
Now I don't need to run Oracle in a VM on my dev box... that should save a few cycles ;-)
Posted by bex | April 10, 2009 3:57 PM
Posted on April 10, 2009 15:57
Yatta!!!
I installed Oracle10g R2 on my MacBook :)
Posted by discus | April 20, 2009 7:50 PM
Posted on April 20, 2009 19:50
This is excellent news. Oracle need to keep up the multiplatform approach. How about 11g next?
Posted by Andy Middleditch | April 24, 2009 3:21 PM
Posted on April 24, 2009 15:21
Did this work for any of you? I was still under the impression that you could only run under "OS X Server". Did any of you get it to run under regular "OS X"? Did it need any special tweaks to get it running?
Posted by Eric Bergerson | May 11, 2009 5:40 PM
Posted on May 11, 2009 17:40