Re: Can I use personal oracle as client in 8i version

From: <d_a_francis_at_yahoo.co.uk>
Date: Fri, 25 Aug 2000 23:41:37 +0100
Message-ID: <8o6t0h$k1r$1@plutonium.btinternet.com>

True. Like previous versions of Personal Oracle, it won`t connect to anything other than it`s own database.

And, as Sybrand says, run it and you`ll violate your licence. Which is quite fine, until Oracle find out. One disgruntled employee and one phone call is all it takes......

Dave

Sybrand Bakker wrote in message
<29n6qss5uf0sdaubg6oi6q43l3j5bkti77_at_4ax.com>...
>On Tue, 22 Aug 2000 12:44:11 -0500, ns56645 <ns56645_at_swt.edu> wrote:
>
>>
>>We have 8 machines acting as clients currently. We are in the process of
>>installing Oracle 8i. I have heard that personal oracle 8i can also acts
>>as client. Is this true? If that is true then we would like to go with
>>Personal Oracle instead of installing client.
>>
>>WhoKnows
>
>
>AFAIK Personal Oracle is Personal Oracle. It will connect to it's own
>database and nothing more.
>Apart from that it is clear that using Personal Oracle as a client
>would violate your Personal Oracle license agreement, and thus is
>illegal.
>
>Regards,
>
>Sybrand Bakker, Oracle DBA
>
Received on Fri Aug 25 2000 - 17:41:37 CDT