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From: ehoward@oracle.uucp (Elliot Howard)
Newsgroups: comp.databases,comp.dcom.lans
Subject: Re: Networked Oracle with VAXen
Message-ID: <544@oracle.UUCP>
Date: 4 Jan 89 20:06:23 GMT
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Reply-To: ehoward@oracle.UUCP (Elliot Howard)
Organization: Oracle Corporation, Belmont CA
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In article <120@syteke.UUCP> jim@syteke.UUCP (Jim Sanchez) writes:
>
>Some customers of ours would like to use Oracle distributed DBMS with
>their vaxes/pcs and our Networking stuff.  What is required for Oracle
>to function in a networked environenment that is not all DEC.  We
>support TCP and NETBIOS, is that enough or am I missing something.  I
>think that Oracle/Netherlands is on the net.  If someone there can
>send me email I would like to answer this question.

1) Oracle SQL*Net TCP/IP supports VAX/VMS, PC/MS-DOS, IBM VM, IBM MVS,
DG AOS/VS, Macintosh, Xenix, and most of the available UNIX implementations.
Like all Oracle products, it is designed to work in a heterogenous
environment (any machine can talk to any machine.)
   On VMS you can use Excelan or Wollongong TCP/IP.
   On MS-DOS you can use Excelan Workplace, Micom Workstation or Micom
Gateway, or FTP.
   No PC/2 (Microchannel) cards are currently supported, but I'm working on
certifying the Ungermann-Bass PC-NIU card as we speak.

2) I don't know if Oracle/Netherlands is on the net, but Oracle/Belmont
(Corporate Headquarters) certainly is!

			Elliot Howard