Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!mcvax!enea!kps!ded
From: ded@kps.UUCP (David Edwards /DP)
Newsgroups: comp.databases
Subject: Re: ORACLE on MAC
Message-ID: <413@kps.UUCP>
Date: 9 Dec 88 12:03:46 GMT
References: <498@oracle.UUCP>
Reply-To: ded@kps.UUCP (David Edwards /DP)
Organization: Kuwait Petroleum Sweden, Stockholm
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In article <498@oracle.UUCP> blinder@oracle.uucp (Ben Linder) writes:
>
>   I am currently using Oracle on the MacIntosh, draft production version.
>It is a very solid beta, and the production dates are very near.
>it is a GREAT and unusual product combining the strengths of the 
>Oracle Database Kernel,Oracle's networking capabilities,
>and a hypertalk interface which brings a whole new object-oriented approach
>to things..
>

Sounds interesting.  We use oracle with PRO-C interface for the batch
programs, and sqlforms for screens.  I don't know anything about
hypercard from a technical point of view.

Can you elaborate on what the object-oriented approach brings to 
oracle specifically? Can you avoid using sqlforms, for example by 
using hypercard instead? How compact is the code incomparison to C? 
Are there things that are hard to do in C that are easy in hypercard 
in connection with database applications?

>   At COMDEX, Oracle demo'd a MAC hypercard application accessing
>databases on the MAC, XENIX, vax VMS, and SUN. Support for 3270 and LU6.2
>SQL*NET is also coming.
>

I don't want you to risk blatant advertising, but, hey, am I really
missing anything?

David Edwards
Kuwait Petroleum Sweden
Stockholm Sweden