Conference ulysse::rdb_vms_competition

144.0. "Professional Oracle" by FENNEL::SLACK () Mon Jun 06 1988 19:59

    I  just got off the phone with an Oracle rep and found it interesting
    that Oracle has a Professional Oracle for the PC environment. Their
    product runs on VAXMATE.  Hardware requirments is that 1 meg is
    needed for the system, and 2 meg for the application. 2 meg isn't
    necessary, but DEC sells the cards in 2 meg increments.
    
    For $199 Oracle sells the developer version of PC Oracle. This
    version cannot be used for selling developed applications as 3rd
    party.  It's intent is for development usage only.  For $1295, the
    Professional Oracle may be sold along with the application product
    developed to run on the PC.  
    
    Basic PC Oracle [officially called Professional Oracle] comes with
    RDBMS, FORMS, and SQL Plus.  SQL Net is an option package that can
    be purchased seaparetly.  This will enable the user to define tables
    locally and remotely thus enabling the user to query data distributedly
    [his words].  
    
    An example would be, for a Vaxmate user having access to Oracle
    running in a VMS environment.  The pc configuration needed to support
    this distributed database is Professional Oracle, SQL Net and the QUERY
    program to extract data across DECnet using the local tables.
    
    They also have Professional Oracle to access Ultrix machines using
    TCP/IP with SQL Net if the user doesn't want to use their Ultrix
    DECNet link.                                                
    
    Bottom line is Oracle is positioning itself to take full advantage
    of futures in the open ended architecture that the presses have been
    reporting on.  
    
    This note is not endorsing the product, but merely presenting what
    products are being made available to the pc user wanting to tap
    large databases or create a more distributed database environment.