Re: V7 on PC

andy_at_homebase.vistachrome.com writes:
>lindquist_at_acesmk.enet.dec.com (My name is Eric Lindquist) writes:
>>What is the official position of porting V7 to the PC?
 

>This is not official - but comes from the mouth of Larry Ellison
>at the IOUW'92 keynote talk on Monday morning. There is a
>single-threaded version of Oracle V7 running in-house on the
>PC architecture.

From the 21-Sep-92 issue of PC Week, page 4:

ORACLE OPTS TO DEVELOP DOS UPGRADE OF DATABASE by Karen D. Moser

SAN FRANCISCO--Oracle Corp. officials last week committed to developing a DOS version of Oracle 7 after announcing that this latest generation of the relational database is undergoing final internal tests.

[...]

"We are in fact doing an Oracle 7 port for DOS, and we are looking for availability of that port sometime next year," said John Kish, vice president of desktop products.

[...]

>Andrew Finkenstadt | Vista-Chrome, Inc. | andy_at_GEnie

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