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From: wht@n4hgf.Mt-Park.GA.US (Warren Tucker)
Newsgroups: comp.databases,comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Oracle - what sort of database system is it?  Is it for Unix?
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Date: 15 Feb 91 19:20:24 GMT
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In article <507@n5pph007.UUCP> tpg@n5pph007.UUCP (T Peter Graham) writes:
>In article <1991Jan29.152745.9028@cs.odu.edu> aiko@cs.odu.edu (John K Hayes) writes:
>>Is Oracle a Unix database, or does it run on several different systems?
>Depending on how much you want to spend, Oracle can range from an RDBMS 

And my experience with Oracle has proven correct the statement by
some wise soul whose name I have lost:

The best platform Oracle works on is the 35mm slide projector.
 
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