| Title: | DEC Rdb against the World |
| Moderator: | HERON::GODFRIND |
| 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 |
This may not be the appropriate conference for this note, but I don't know where
else to put it.
First of all, I am a Sales Support Specialist. My customer wants to purchase a
MicroVAX II to play with, since they have no experience with VAXes. They do
have IBM Mainframes running ORACLE. What they want to do is install ORACLE on
the MicroVAX II and develop applications that use the VAX ORACLE database, some
with HyperCard interfaces, others with C interfaces. Anyway, we proposed that
the customer buy VAX C, while ORACLE proposed that the customer buy ORACLE C.
I didn't even know ORACLE had a version of C.
So, what I'm wondering is:
1. What's the difference between VAX C and ORACLE C?
2. Will VAX C interface with the ORACLE database stuff, or is the customer
required to use ORACLE C? (I have been told that INGRES requires that
their own version of C be used, and that it is sold with the product.)
3. Where can I find more information on ORACLE C, so that I might better
position our product against theirs?
Any help with this would be greatly appreciated.
Shawn Colvard
New York District
DTN 352-2414
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| T.R | Title | User | Personal Name | Date | Lines |
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| 198.1 | Confusion? | BROKE::BOOTH | What am I?...An Oracle? | Tue Sep 20 1988 18:08 | 12 |
I think there may be some confusion here. Ingres requires their
C compiler, because all the Ingres tools compile into C.
At least until now, Oracle has only offered pre-compilers (named
PRO*C, PRO*Cobol, etc.). They are required when using Oracle. But
they are for the purpose of allowing the user to embed Oracle's
extended SQL commands in the named programming language.
If Oracle has it's own C compiler, it must be new. Make sure this
isn't a pre-compiler issue.
---- Michael Booth
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| 198.2 | Oracle C for VM and MVS | DEBIT::DREYFUS | Wed Sep 21 1988 21:20 | 30 | |
In .0: Because it's my job... Have you suggested that they use Rdb on the VAX. It does a great job of working with VAX C and many other Digital products. We also tend to know and want to say more about using Rdb than Oracle. That aside ... Oracle sells its own C compiler on VM and MVS Operating systems. The C compiler costs $5,000 The standard I/O runtime library costs $2,000 The whitesmiths compatible runtime library costs $3,000 An interactive screen debugger costs $3,000 You probably don't need this because use can use PRO*C from Oracle to work with VAX C. However, unless it has changed recently, you can't take advantage of VAX C with Oracle since they require you to turn off the compiler's optimizer. .1: RTI does not sell its own C compiler. The Ingres precompilers work with VAX C and other C implementations. I am not aware of any restrictions on using Ingres with VAX C (ie, you can run VAX C with optimization). --david | |||||