Re: Oracle for Windows

From: Keith Majkut <kmajkut_at_netcom.com>
Date: Fri, 21 Oct 1994 04:56:59 GMT
Message-ID: <kmajkutCy0B30.3C7_at_netcom.com>


In article <380ic3$97l_at_andromeda.rutgers.edu>, Richard D Holowczak <holowcza_at_andromeda.rutgers.edu> wrote:
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>What I've heard is the product is called Oracle Desktop
>and includes a single user Oracle 7 database engine that
>has been "scaled down" to run under Windows. The forms
>tolls that come with it are a bit fuzzier. At first I heard
>some newer version of forms (e.g. 4.5) might be shipped.

>Now it looks as if a new Oracle product called
>Oracle Objects will ship. I think this is a
>Visual Basic-like application builder. I don't know if it
>supports PL/SQL.

The RDBMS is basically a complete Oracle7 implementation, but it is NOT a server(no incoming connections). Oracle Objects (For Windows) is NOT a VB-like app builder. OO4W is a VB Data Control specific to Oracle, an OLE automation server and a C++ class lib(similar objects/methods to VB).
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