Barry Bulsara wrote:
> Hi, I am writing a document and normally I wouldn't give a second
> thought to saying such and such will run using a database such as
> Oracle.
>
> It occurred to me that Oracle is the name of the company, and that an
> Oracle database doesn't differentiate between what you and I think of
> daily as Oracle (eg. 9i, 10g, or "launched" but not "released" 11g),
> and Oracle Times Ten or Oracle Database Lite or Oracle Berkeley DB or
> some other database Oracle provides that I have forgotton about.
>
> Does just shorthand "Oracle" still refer to say 10g. I don't want to
> write Oracle 10g because then I am specifying a version which opens a
> can of worms elsewhere.
>
> Ideas anyone.
>
> Thank you
> Barry
The marketplace will consider "Oracle database" synonymous with the
9i .. 10g .. 11g product indefinitely.
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Daniel A. Morgan
University of Washington
damorgan_at_x.washington.edu (replace x with u to respond)
Puget Sound Oracle Users Group
www.psoug.org
Received on Sat Jul 28 2007 - 15:59:51 CDT
