Re: Oracle products for stand-alone PC
Date: Tue, 6 Jul 1993 14:46:31 GMT
Message-ID: <1993Jul6.144631.8377_at_cc.gatech.edu>
!>>Oracle sells their older Oracle 6 for DOS PCs. There will not be an Oracle
!>>7 for DOS. Oracle 7 is available for OS/2. I do not know the current pricing.
!>
!>As far as I have heard, there are talks about proting O7 to the
!>dos environment now due to strong demand. Or at least most of it
!>since I don't see how they would implement remote DB integrity.
!>
!>Yes Oracle works with os/2 but the future of that OS is in doubt, sadly.
!>
!How so?
Personel:
Well I do not wish to start on denigrating OS/2, which I think
is a good product. Yet, after I bought 2.0 I will not upgrade
to 2.1 because of the price, lack of software (or its cost),
and because I feel IBM is not fully commited to it. Further
now that MS-IBM code sharing agreement expired, what about the
next window version ? IBM talks about buiding it own compatible API. Jesus !!!
Market:
Simply look at the numbers of what sells what ? Stagerring ! OS/2 is way behind,
and many people buying IBM machines bundled with OS/2 are switching
to windows (I have done this three times for people here at GaTech).
So does this leaves OS/2 ? I can't give it more than a very small niche market. It would take many huge MS blunders to change that. And I do not think they are like that.
I also use NeXT/486 which I just bought and even though it is the best thing I have seen (I am a 3th year Phd/CS) it doesn't have a chance. That is the market rule !
JM Received on Tue Jul 06 1993 - 16:46:31 CEST