Re: $200 oracle?

Alvar1 (alvar1_at_aol.com) wrote:
: In article: (kenho.175.2EF6B47E_at_hk.super.net> kenho_at_hk.super.net writes
: kenho>
: kenho> In article <3d05tp$635$1_at_mhadg.production.compuserve.com> Frank
: kenho> Greene <74200.427_at_CompuServe.COM> writes:
: kenho>
: kenho> >Recent spate of articles in the literature that Oracle is going
: kenho> >to introduce a 'full featured' version 7 for use on PCs at
: kenho> around >$200. Anyone heard anything about this? Devlivery,
: kenho> limits, etc.
: kenho>
: kenho> I guess you are talking about 'Project X'.
: kenho>
: kenho> I have seen the beta version of this product.
: kenho>
: kenho> It is a single user version of Oracle 7 (they call it the BLAZE
: kenho> engine) with a LOT of things are not available. e.g. stored
: kenho> procedures, database trigger.
: kenho>
: kenho> It is a development environment so that you can create forms and
: kenho> reports. However, the scripting lanaguage is not PL/SQL but
: kenho> something like VB...
 

: I'm sure I saw the same the beta version of the product, but I'm guessing
: that what we will see may be different in the initial release. A few
: people at Oracle have assured me of a 1stQ 95 release of a "Local" Oracle
: database for PC's, but there have been no comittments to the VB like
: programming interface. I guess that they need and "Object Oriented
: enviroment" to compete against Gupta and Powerbuilder (Now owned by
: Sybase), but it may be 2nd Q of 95?...

I've heard that "personal Oracle for Windows" has been delayed from January to ???

• Bob