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From: tbetz@dasys1.UUCP (Tom Betz)
Newsgroups: comp.databases
Subject: ORACLE on the cheap... questions
Summary: Special offer - is it worth the piddling $?
Message-ID: <5165@dasys1.UUCP>
Date: 24 Jun 88 20:16:30 GMT
Reply-To: tbetz@dasys1.UUCP (Tom Betz)
Organization: The Big Electric Cat
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Just today received ORACLE's offer of ORACLE-PC for $199, and ORACLE-*NIX
for $399.00, both including their SQL*Forms, Plus, Report, Calc, and Pro*C
Pre-Compiler.

This is a pretty heavy mark-down, and makes me suspicious... but also piques
my interest.  It's an obvious grab for market share, but I want to inquire:
does Oracle support such things as transaction logs, roll-back and roll-forward,
the features that Zim and Progress, among others, offer?  

Is it strictly an SQL, or does it have some of the richness of functions 
available with Progress, and to a greater extent, with Zim?

Responses appreciated... if sufficient, will summarize to the Net.


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Tom Betz                      
ZCNY                               {bellcore,cmcl2}!cucard!dasys1!tbetz
Yonkers, NY, USA 10701-2509                    
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