Re: Oracle Vs. SQL SERVER

In article <Czzn4z.J9L_at_ief.itg.ti.com>, keith_at_kmoore.itg.ti.com says:
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>In article <3babd8$qvq_at_nlsu110.nl.oracle.com>, <snieuwen_at_nl.oracle.com> writes:
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>> : Yes ACCESS does work with Oracle 7 and other ODBC products but I think
>> : you are supposed to license SQL net and the ODBC driver for each client
>> : which I believe SQL server includes with the server license.
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>> Not true, OWS does include client and server SQL*Net and an ODBC driver.
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>> Sandor Nieuwenhuijs
>> Oracle Netherlands
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>> --- These opinions (if any) are just mine. I do not represent Oracle ---
>> --- Corporation in this Posting ---
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>I need some clarification on this. We are running Oracle 7.1 on Solaris 2.3.
>We are using Forms 3.0 for the user interface.
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>We were told by our Oracle account representative that to convert to
>client/server, we would need to buy a liscense for SQL*Net for each
>client. In our case, the application is run infrequently, but needs to
>run on 80,000+ clients. We never pursued using SQL*Net for this reason.
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>Were we given incorrect information? Has Oracle's policy changed?
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>Thanks,
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>Keith
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Received on Thu Dec 08 1994 - 19:49:09 CET