Re: Where is the newsgroup for SQL Anywhere ?
Date: 1995/12/08
Message-ID: <4a8doi$cjl_at_ixnews4.ix.netcom.com>#1/1
In <4a75mm$nci_at_inet-nntp-gw-1.us.oracle.com> tkyte_at_us.oracle.com
(Thomas J Kyte) writes:
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>It is very clear you don't read messages very closely. I wasn't
>critiqueing by the way, I was quoting information.
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Boy, you have a short memory! Take a look at your original posting.
You were certainly critiqueing and stated the erroneous information
as fact! Never quoting a source mind you...
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>BTW:
>Oracle has in production two toolkits
>- Procedural Gateway Developers kit
>- Transparent Gateway Developers kit.
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Once again, you (Oracle) do not have an equivalent product to Sybase's
Open Server. It is clear that you don't understand Open Server since
you are comparing it to a gateway kit.
Sybase customers use Open Server for many things. One of the common
uses of this technology is integrate a wide range of data sources,
such as satellintes, with compact "multi-threaded" servers. Others
use this technology to write application servers. Application servers
provide a very valuable function. They allow customers to write their
business logic in a multi-threaded environment and no longer depend on
the GUI or the database server for any business logic, that way if they
are ever displeased with a GUI tool or a database server they can
always
replace it with little impact or additional cost to their business.
This is possible because the most expensive part of a system is the
application logic. So, in short it protects the business by providing
an option to choose best of breed products such as GUI tools and data
servers. Yet another need is telemetry. In my days in international
sales I use to have a customer who wrote a 24x7 telemetry system with
10,000 data points for the metro of a major city. This application
allowed them to keep track of all the metro cars and make
corrections accordingly. There are other types of applications...
The bottom line, is that in each of the above applications the
customers were able to write a multi-threaded application/server
that would be much lighter to run than a single-threaded process
based environment. Take the application server example, if you
have 200 clients connecting to an application server, you could
do that with one Open Server based application server. Without
it you would end up with 200 discrete processes in your Unix/NT
box, this would require more administration and resources to run.
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>Thomas Kyte
>tkyte_at_us.oracle.com
>Oracle Government
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Received on Fri Dec 08 1995 - 00:00:00 CET