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| Title: | DEC Rdb against the World |
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| Moderator: | HERON::GODFRIND |
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| Created: | Fri Jun 12 1987 |
| Last Modified: | Thu Feb 23 1995 |
| Last Successful Update: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
| Number of topics: | 1348 |
| Total number of notes: | 5438 |
146.0. "digital markets ORACLE/Informix!?" by TRCO01::BROWN (Ian Brown @TRC 9/5 637-3339) Wed Jun 08 1988 23:34
How do marketing deals like this help strategic products like Rdb/RALLY?
One can hear the customer comment ...
"If it's good enough [for Digital!] to sell with Ultrix it must be good
enough to use with VMS".
It begs the question:
�Why hasn't Digital ported RALLY to Ultrix and VAXmates (i.e. PCs)?�
(I gather UNISYS has a UNIX and PC versions of ALLY�)
-ian
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DEC signs marketing deal with Oracle and Informix.
Chelmsford, Ma., June 7/Micro Tech Research Inc./ DEC signs marketing deal
with Oracle and Informix. The agreement with Oracle offers DEC non-exclusive
U.S. marketing rights to Oracle's SQL-based RDMS. DEC will sell this to be
used under Ultrix, its Berkeley Unix derivative. Financial details for the
agreement were not released. DEC will pay undisclosed royalties on sales of
Oracle's products. DEC will also market the firm's natural language tools and
decision-support software. The Oracle products will be made available by DEC
on its complete line of VAX and MicroVAX computers.
DEC will market Informix's RDMS and application development tools with DEC's
Ultrix-based systems. Products now available through DEC's direct sales force
include:
Informix-4GL - a Cobol-replacement programming language for
database applications
Informix-SQL - a SQL-based relational DBMS
Informix-4GL Rapid Development System
Informix 4GL-Interactive Debugger
Informix-ESQL C - allows programmers to embed SQL statements
into C programs
Informix-Turbo - a fault-tolerant database server
C-ISAM - an indexed sequential-access method
(EN,5/30/88,p14)
{Micro Tech Research Inc., 07-JUN-88}
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| 146.1 | Distributor, NOT a CMP | TRCO01::BROWN | Ian Brown @TRC 9/5 637-3339 | Thu Jun 16 1988 22:37 | 8 |
| Additional discussion of this topic can be found
in note 31 in HPS::OLTP_INFORMATION.
Basically it appears that Oracle has a DDS (distribution agreement)
with Digital for ULTRIX systems in the US only. This arrangment
is similar to aggreements with INGRES and UNIFY.
Bottom line: ORACLE is *NOT* a CMP.
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