Re: Which product?

From: Sybrand Bakker <postbus_at_sybrandb.demon.nl>
Date: 9 Oct 2001 02:43:38 -0700
Message-ID: <a20d28ee.0110090143.17d9797f@posting.google.com>

"Neil Truby" <neil.truby_at_ardenta.com> wrote in message news:<_4xw7.51$qg3.251_at_NewsReader>...
> "Mark Townsend" <markbtownsend_at_home.com> wrote in message
> news:B7E7BA58.19159%markbtownsend_at_home.com...
> > in article Nxmw7.8759$sI1.48760_at_NewsReader, Neil Truby at
> > neil.truby_at_ardenta.com wrote on 10/8/01 11:43 AM:
> >
> > > the answer's obvious, or posted somewhere obvious.
> >
> > Neil - see http://otn.oracle.com/products/oracle8i/pdf/8i_fam.pdf for the
> > differences between Standard and Enterprise.
>
> Thanks Mark
>
> I had already been directed to this page. Perhaps it's just me, but I don't
> think this *does* describe the differences, except in a broad-brush,
> high-level, tortoiseshell-glasses, pony-tailed marketing sort of way. I
> certainly can't disgest those paragraphs and make a technical assessement on
> which is right for my client. And I have to say Oracle themselves don't
> seem inclined to help ...
>
> But thanks for your reply.

Please *READ* and try to digest pages 8-12 of that document. It describes *exactly* which options you will get and won't get. A *lower* level simply isn't possible.
And of course there is the free online documentation to get further details on the various options.

Regards,

Sybrand Bakker
Senior Oracle DBA Received on Tue Oct 09 2001 - 04:43:38 CDT