Re: Oracle Power Objects 2.0: Professional v. Client/Server

The Professional Edition access only the Personal Oracle Lite Database (replacing the Blaze in version 1) whereas the Client/Server Edition accesses all Oracle Databases

On Wed, 18 Dec 96 17:51:03 GMT, hthompso_at_pcc.edu (Howard Thompson) wrote:

>I've just been reviewing the Oracle blurbs on Oracle Power Objects
>version 2.0. I have a couple of questions:
>
> o What is the difference (besides $1200) between the Professional Edition
> and the Client/Server Edition.
>
> I see that the Client/Server edition includes an "Oracle Lite" data base
> whereas the Professional Edition uses "Blaze".
>
> o Can the Professional Edition be used to access an Oracle7 data base
> on a separate machine (i.e. over SQL*Net)?
>
> I would have thought so, but I had heard that this is not the case.
>
>Our core business systems are based on Oracle7 on an HP-UX platform. If we
>can use Oracle Power Objects Professional Edition to work with these (or new)
>databases so much the better. I'm not up for spending $1,500 for it though.
>
>What do you all know about the differences.
>
>Thanks, awfully.
>
>
>
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Received on Fri Dec 20 1996 - 00:00:00 CET