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Conference ulysse::rdb_vms_competition

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

719.0. "Oracle's next version ?" by EEMELI::MALMI () Thu Aug 23 1990 16:31

    When is coming a new version of Oracle ? What kind of new features
    it has ? Does new version support also Vaxcluster ?
     
    Regards. Mervi
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719.1Do you believe an Oracle marketeer?IJSAPL::OLTHOFHenny Olthof @UTO 838-2021Fri Aug 24 1990 09:2518
    Wel,
    
    O is constantly bringing out new versions to fix bugs from the older
    ones. Version 6 was aimed at TP, version 7 is believed to be adressing
    distributed databases (stuff like 2PC). Timeframes are hard to get but
    I guess that it's at least one year out.
    
    Cluster support is a nice thing, O has been working on that since 1984.
    If you read the article in the Digital Review (may or june, I have a
    photocopy), O claims to have DLM and cluster support in beta test. But,
    the've claimed that many times before so I would not count on that.
    
    I've found it interesting to know that customers are kept unaware that
    O does not run on clusters and efficient on SMP. We should be telling
    then that more often.
    
    Regards,
    Henny Olthof, EIS Holland
719.2when would you like it ?MAIL::DUNCANGOracle... the one-line databaseFri Aug 31 1990 21:5412
    Let's role play ...  I'll be the Oracle salesman.... you be the
    customer.
    
    O: "when would you like version 7 ? ....... how much would you pay"
    
    Seriously, Oracle's user group is coming up in the next two months
    and you can sleep at night knowing that the good "O" boys will have
    lots of marketing hype, unrealistic time frames, and deficient
    products to talk about.  
    
    -- gerry
    
719.3TRCC2::BOWERSDave Bowers @WHOWed Sep 12 1990 16:442
When you sya version 7 is due in about a year, do you mena announcemnt or
delivery?