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From: nick@bilpin.UUCP (Nick Price)
Newsgroups: comp.databases
Subject: Oracle for PC/Quicksilver
Keywords: ORACLE
Message-ID: <2521@bilpin.UUCP>
Date: 12 Feb 90 09:51:00 GMT
Organization: SRL, London, England
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A client of mine is a DBASE convert, but wants to use unix for 
shared databases etc. He is looking at Foxbase+ for Unix (NCR Tower 32/650),
and networking his PC's using TCP/IP.

We dont do much with PC's and are strongly unix based so I would much rather
he chose ORACLE. It would seem that ORACLE's new products Quicksilver and
DBxl (the Dbase 111+ compiler and interpreter) may be the way to go. So
my question; Does anyone have any direct experience of these products ?
Any other comments on Oracle for PC's (Professional Oracle) would also be
useful.

We will require the eventual solution to use TCP/IP and use SQL*Net if
we go the Oracle route. Can anyone point me to a usable TCP/IP 
implementation for PC's ?

Some comparisons against Foxbase+ or similar running under Unix would 
also be welcomed.




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