Re: Oracle vs Access

For $1800 U.S. vs. $150, Oracle should be better as a back end multi-user server. Nonetheless, most of the Oracle applications I've seen use either Visual Basic or Access as a front end.

Emmanuel Baechler wrote in message <35CFF981.4E18_at_hospvd.ch>...
>In our environnment, all the major components of our information systems
>are based on oracle databases. They are character based applications,
>but several modules support more than 12000 transactions a day without a
>hitch. All the people who tried to build large information systems with
 ACCESS
>here failed miserably. . . . .
>In our experience, ACCESS is only tolerable for small single user, non
>critical applications. . . . .
Received on Tue Aug 11 1998 - 00:00:00 CDT