Re: Oracle8's new features - what are they

What is Oracle8's main features?
Is it the same as Oracle's Universal Server? Is it Object-Relational?
I just came back from the Informix Universal Server launch. They (not Informix but others) said that the IUS puts Informix 18 months ahead of the competition! And that puts Oracle 'under the gun'!

On Thu, 22 May 1997 09:54:49 +0100, Akmal B Chaudhri <akmal_at_no_spam.uk> wrote:
>On Thu, 22 May 1997, Joshua Duhl wrote:
>
>[snip]
>
>> >
>> > I agree that it's very sad that polymorphism and inheritance is not supported in
>> > 8.0, but please don't overlook the user-defined object types with properties
>> > (can be other object types as well) and methods.
>>
>> Whoa there... there ain't no "object types" they're just
>> abstract data types. Big difference.
>
>Sorry Josh, I'm missing something here. Do you mean types/classes vs.
>ADTs?
>
> And I don't see
>> where you get the "methods" from. Where's the encapsulation?
>
>Couldn't stored procedures be considered a _form_ of encapsulation?
>
>> Version 8 is no more OO than Version 7. It's focus is on
>> larger scale and some abstract data type support. But this
>> is a far, far cry from supporting objects. Supporting
>> inheritance is the biggest problem they have in supporting
>> objects.
>
>I've heard that Oracle Late (sorry 8 :-) ) does have support for single
>inheritance.
>
>>
>> -- Joshua Duhl
>>
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>
>I like this "get even with the spammers". If you don't mind, I'll paste
>these addresses onto my .sig as well :-)
>
> -- Akmal.
>
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