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From: liemandt@lindy.Stanford.EDU (Joe Liemandt)
Newsgroups: comp.databases
Subject: Re: Oracle: Q's about UNIX, Macintosh
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Date: 29 Aug 89 10:07:39 GMT
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In article <1004@diemen.cc.utas.oz> nw@diemen.cc.utas.oz (Nigel Williams) writes:
>Can anyone answer the following questions please. We have been
>unable to get any satisfactory answers from the local support people.
>
>1.	Macintosh Oracle (1.0 or 1.1beta) does not seem to work reliably
>	on the Macintosh SE/30 (our application made extensive use of
>	views - which we have subsequently removed due to a suggestion
>	that it was a memory full condition. Oracle was returning an
>	undocumented -221 Error. An error that no one at Oracle seems
>	to know anything about.


I'm not sure, it may be a problem with the beta.  We are using a production
version of 1.1 on a SE/30 with 5MB and have no unusual problems.


>2.	Oracle for SuperCard
>	Any idea of when it will be available ?
>	We have attempted to use SuperCard with the HyperCard
>	Oracle XCMDS, however fetching multiple rows does'nt work.
>	Is this an imcompatability between XCMDs and SuperCard or
>	ORACLE and SuperCard?

.
.
Sorry, cannot help you here, except to note that we were trying to use
links from Neuron Data's Nexpert Object (expert system) that were written
for hypercard and they did not work with Supercard very well.

>
>3.	Will Macintosh network Oracle work with MacTCP?

.
I do not know, but am very interested in an answer myself.



>4.	UNIX, specifically Apple UNIX (aka A/UX)
>	Is there a production release of this product ?

You cannot currently buy ORACLE for AU/X.  I think they have announced
an "intent" to port.  They also said that about the NeXT.  I think that
is OracleSpeak for "if enough machines are sold, we will start coding"

>5.	Will the A/UX implementation eventually support a serial SQL*Net
>	version?

No Clue.

>6.	4th Dimension V2.0 interface to Oracle - Is it available?

This is currently in development and should be released RSN.  They are
re-writing some of the interfaces to take advantage of new 4D features.
Look for end of Sept. or early Oct.


>7.	Is the production release of Macintosh Oracle 1.1 shipping?

Yes.


>Nigel Williams		|	Desktop Power Pty Ltd
>Gavin Orr		|	nw@diemen.utas.OZ.AU

Joe Liemandt
Stanford University
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