Re: PRESS:INFORMIX UNVEILS PRODUCT STRATEGY FOR UNIVERSAL SERVER

Snorri Bergmann <snorri_at_strengur.is> wrote:

>David Sidwell wrote:
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>> Oracle release 7.3.2 is production and shipping.
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>> This release incorporates the ability to manage many different data types
>> and applications. Integrated into this release are ConText, Webserver,
>> Spatial Data and Video server options.
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>Only one small thing you forgot to mention: Oracle Universal Server is in no
>way comparable to Informix Universal Server. The biggest diffrentiator is the
>fact that the USER can extend the server (build new datatypes etc.) in Informix
>but Oracle Corp. has to do the work in OUS. I guess Oracle mrketing will have
>no problems with that though. BTW, aint it strange that Oracle announces their
>Universal server roughly 3 weeks after Informix did? Good ol' 'Mee too' yell
>IMHO.
Your bias is showing, LE was talking about this thing the universal server long before Informix purchased their OO database and put the tag on it. Also Con Text, Webserver, Spatial data, and Video server options have been about for some time. All the options together coined the phrase Universal Server.

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