Re: Why is Oracle expensive?

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> I curious what makes you think that. I though the were releasing the 7 toolset
> (Forms4.0,SRW2.0) for windows on June 1. The unix stuff won't be released until
> 60 to 90 days after that.
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Let me qualify my previous statements. Based on phone conversations with Oracle technical reps and sales reps, Oracle V7 *RDBMS* was considered to be too big and unruly to run in a normal DOS, single user environment. The toolset (i.e. Forms, Plus, ReportWriter, etc) will be released to run on a PC against a database server. I hadn't heard about Oracle being released on the Chicago 32-bit version of DOS, but that certainly makes sense. I'm sure that given enough general public moaning and groaning, they will figure out SOME WAY of releasing V7 on a single-user DOS machine. If anyone has heard otherwise, please let me know! Maybe I need to talk to the right people! ;^>

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