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From: corpspt@oracle.com (David E. Anderson)
Newsgroups: comp.databases
Subject: Re: Oracle for PC/Quicksilver
Summary: Oracle OEMs PC/Quicksilver and DBXL supersets which also use SQL
Keywords: DBXL QUICKSILVER SQL ORACLE PC
Message-ID: <1990Feb15.174835.12292@oracle.com>
Date: 15 Feb 90 17:48:35 GMT
References: <2521@bilpin.UUCP> <1990Feb14.124753.7735@planet.bt.co.uk>
Sender: danderso@oracle.com (David E. Anderson)
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In article <1990Feb14.124753.7735@planet.bt.co.uk> cag@tigger.planet.bt.co.uk writes:
>From article <2521@bilpin.UUCP>, by nick@bilpin.UUCP (Nick Price):
>> 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.
>> 
>"ORACLE's new products Quicksilver and DBxL...."????????  Unless
>something has happened very recently Quicksilver and DBxL are
>produced by a company called Wordtech.  I recently (about October '89)
>got an udpdate of my copy of DBxL to version 1.3 having bought it
>originally earlier last year.  It is a pretty standard Dbase III clone
>with some extensions, particularly windowing and extra memory variable
>facilities.  I bought it because it is much cheaper than the other
>Dbase III clones, my version 1.2 cost <100 pounds and the update to
>version 1.3 was free.
>
>Chris Green
>
>(chris@kbss.bt.co.uk  or cgreen@ibmpcug.co.uk)

Oracle Corporation sells versions of DBXL and QUICKSILVER which also execute
SQL statements.

David E. Anderson
RDBMS Tech Support