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From: hsbauer@rodan.acs.syr.edu (Harold S. Bauer)
Newsgroups: comp.databases
Subject: Re: Oracle v5 -> v6 question
Message-ID: <1990Nov19.141755.8363@rodan.acs.syr.edu>
Date: 19 Nov 90 14:17:55 GMT
References: <28232@usc>
Organization: Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY
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In article <28232@usc> mcitron@phad.hsc.usc.edu (Mark Citron) writes:
>
>We are upgrading from Oracle version 5 to version 6 for SCO Unix.
>Oracle tells me that we need to buy SCO's development system
>just to do the installation (needs a c compiler and linker)
>That seems a like a waste of money for a product that we have no 
>real use for. Can this really be true?
>
ORACLE V6 (on all of the UNIX systems I have used) has been delivered as a
set of object and library files that need to be linked together to create
the executables.  It is done this way to allow you to customize ORACLE to
your specific needs (ie whether or not you need TPO, PL/SQL, etc).  This
not only includes the RDBMS engine, but also the applications.  So you do
need SCO's development system.