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From: rad@genco.uucp (Bob Daniel)
Newsgroups: comp.databases
Subject: Re: Oracle for the Mac
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Date: 6 Sep 90 17:41:03 GMT
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In article <49079@seismo.CSS.GOV> cooper@beno.CSS.GOV (Dale Cooper) writes:
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>Has anyone out there in netland had any experience with Oracle for the Mac?
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>I have heard minimal reviews word-of-mouth (you know - "it sucks" or "it's 
>the greatest thing since sliced bread") but I would like to hear some real
>war stories from folks who have had extensive experience on this platform.
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I have only briefly looked at Oracle for Mac (have been using Oracle on 
UNIX for about a year and a half) and am not too impressed.  I saw it using
Hypercard and Hypercard sucks.  If you have a need to tie Mac into mainframe
via Oracle then Oracle on Mac would be good.  There is something that 
completely blows away Oracle on Mac.  It's called 4th Dimension and it is
light years ahead of any 4GL I have ever worked with.  There is a 4D front
end to Oracle but there is no need to use Oracle unless tieing into another
platform using Oracle.

4th Dimension is by far the most user friendly and developer friendly 
and is much more powerful than Oracle.  If there is something better, I
definitely want to know about it.