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- Subject: Re: Oracle 7 and heterogeneous distributed databases
- Message-ID: <1992Dec10.214424.7549@oracle.us.oracle.com>
- Date: 10 Dec 92 21:44:24 GMT
- References: <1992Dec4.174644.1@vxcrna.cern.ch> <4DEC199216372928@stars.gsfc.nasa.gov> <Dec.6.18.16.09.1992.5540@andromeda.rutgers.edu>
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- In article <Dec.6.18.16.09.1992.5540@andromeda.rutgers.edu> holowcza@andromeda.rutgers.edu (Richard D Holowczak) writes:
- >thompson@stars.gsfc.nasa.gov (William Thompson, code 682.1, x2040) writes:
- >
- >>>I was reading some Oracle 7 propaganda (well, the notes from a course
- >>>on oracle 7 somebody here took), and saw a few pages discussing
- >>>"heterogeneous database networks" or some such -- it seems Oracle 7
- >>>will be able to cooperate with other vendors' databases. Unfortunately,
- >>>these notes are basically copies of overheads, and so contain very
- >>>little information. Could anyone suggest where I might find further
- >>>documentation or information? (Our regular Oracle 7 docs haven't
- >>>arrived yet, and besides I suspect this is a bit esoteric to be in
- >>>the usual set.)
- >
- >>I'm not using Oracle, but I have been looking around at databases lately. The
- >>story I got from the Oracle rep was that Oracle does allow to connect to
- >>certain other *mainframe* databases, e.g. DB2, RDB, etc. They do *not* however
- >>connect to another of their SQL competitors, i.e. Ingres, Sybase, Informix,
- >>etc., which is the only kind of connectivity we're interested in. It may be
- >>that they do starting with version 7, and the word hasn't gotten down to the
- >>sales reps yet, but I doubt it. Oracle seems to have a very Krushevian "we
- >>will bury you" attitude towards the rest of the SQL market.
- >
- >>Bill Thompson
- >
- >
- > It seems that Sybase will support this type of connectivity to other
- > vendor's databases. It will be interesting to see how well this
- > works (i.e. distributed 2PC, recovery, termination, etc.).
- >
- > Perhaps Oracle should take note. Now-a-days you have to be "open"
- > to other systems if you want to be taken seriously. The days of
- > the single vendor shop are definitely over.
- >
- > My $.02
- >
- > Rich Holowczak
- > Rutgers University
-
- Hopefully this will clarify some of the isssues that have been discussed here
- about a gateway from Oracle to competitors products. Currently under Version
- 6.0 of the database Oracle provides gateways to other relational and
- non-relational databases (such as DB2, RDB, VSAM flat files) with what are
- called SQL*Connect products. These are hardcoded connections to a given
- database or flat file structure that Oracle has written.
-
- With the introduction of ORACLE7 to the market, we are now developing a new
- product to be called Open Gateway which will provide a set of development tools
- to allow a client to essentially write their own connect product from oracle
- to any relational database, heirarchical database, or flat file system. In
- addition, Oracle will continue to create new Connect products for specific
- databases and flat file systems. This new Open Gateway product will allow
- a client, with a standard set of tools, to create a gateway to Sybase, Ingres,
- Informix, etc....
-
- Hope this help!
-
- Jeff Michael
- Sales Consultant
- Oracle Corporation
- jmichael@oracle.com
-
- The information contained above expresses my opinions only and not those of my
- employer.
-