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From: hthoene@doitcr.doit.sub.org (Hermann Thoene)
Newsgroups: comp.databases
Subject: Re: Will Oracle be compatible with MS/Windows 3.0 soon??
Keywords: oracle windows
Message-ID: <1555@doitcr.doit.sub.org>
Date: 3 Jan 91 23:22:09 GMT
References: <19616@netcom.UUCP>
Organization: DOITCR / FLOENZ1, Public Access Unix Munich/Germany
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In article <19616@netcom.UUCP> lpendley@netcom.UUCP (Lou Pendley) writes:
} Currently Oracle on MS-DOS, 5.1x, is incompatible with Microsoft Windows 3.0. 
} If you have heard any talk, and not foilware, nor vaporware talk, please let us here know about it.  I believe the only database product compatible with it is  Gupta, and it only runs on the MS-DOS, OS/2 platforms.  I want it to be      
} connectible to more platforms than those.
} 
} Please pass any gossip you may have heard.  I know that they were having       
} problems with running their database engine in protected mode, while having
} windows running in protected mode.

Probably summer this year comes version 6 of Oracle on MS-DOS. This version
will also run with Windows 3.0. In the first version, SQL*Forms 3.0 will 
only run in terminal-emulation (char-oriented), but later versions will 
support all windows-features as know already available on X-Windows.

Servus from Germany

Hermann Thoene,    Muenchen,    Bavaria <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<
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