Re: What Server to take?

Luis Campos wrote:

> Oracle DataServer is Oracle's main product. When you see some reference to
> Oracle7 or Oracle8 its to this product that they meant to refer. Each major
> release has other numbers which identify subreleases. In Oracle7 you had
> 4major subreleases:
> Oracle7.0, Oracle7.1, Oracle7.2 and Oracle7.3. The third number its also
> important, and so this lead us to the last Oracle7 release which was 7.3.4.
> In Oracle8 the major releases are: 8.0.3, 8.0.4, 8.0.5 and 8.1.5. This last
> one is also called Oracle8i, because the second digit change was a major
> one, and so they decided to add an 'i' to the Oracle8 for two reasons: first
> it means INTERNET and second to distinguish it from the Oracle8 which was a
> reference for 8.0.x releases.
>
> NOW FOR SECOND PART OF THE ENLIGHTMENT:
> OracleDataServer comes in 4 different sizes: Lite, Personal Edition,
> Workgroup Edition and Enterprise Edition. Lite is the OracleServer for
> PDAs, Personal is for client OS (W95/98/Mac), Workgroup is for medium sized
> servers and it doesn't come with the possibilty of adding cartridges, and
> finally Enterprise Edition is the ferrari of the Editions, for medium to
> large or very large systems. They differ in price too!
>

Does this mean that the cartridge OracleSpatial is not available for the Personal Edition - only Enterprise Edition? I am studying Geoinformation and therefore I am most interrested in that new technology!

>
> Hope it helped.
>
> Luis Campos.
>
> Gottfried Pauler wrote in message <37C28DB9.C940CA0E_at_aon.at>...
> >I am a student who wants to get to know the Oracle DBMS. Oracle offers
> >trial-versions of all their products and so I will try for 30 days!
> >But Oracle´s way describing their different products on their page is
> >really bad! The only thing you can read out is that "each product is
> >better than the others"!
> >So my question is what is the difference between:
> >Oracle8 and Oracle8i
> >Lite Version, Personal Edition and Enterprise Edition
> >
> >... or are there any other DB-servers / editions too?
> >
> >Thanks for any comment,
> >Gottfried Pauler
> >
> >
> >
Received on Wed Aug 25 1999 - 05:53:02 CDT