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- From: deflenniken@beckman.com
- Newsgroups: comp.databases.oracle
- Subject: Re: SQR bought by Sybase; Future direction of SQR?
- Message-ID: <1992Aug12.120907.960@beckman.com>
- Date: 12 Aug 92 12:09:07 PDT
- References: <kpalm.712606717@athena> <1992Aug5.232734.9943@oracle.us.oracle.com>
- Organization: Beckman Instruments, Inc.
- Lines: 50
- Summary: reposted to correct typos.
-
- In article <1992Aug5.232734.9943@oracle.us.oracle.com>, dbmoore@us.oracle.com (Dennis Moore) writes:
- > In article <kpalm.712606717@athena> kpalm@athena.qualcomm.com (Kent Palm) writes:
- >>Now that Sybase owns SQR (Structured Query Report Writer) originally developed
- >>by SQ Software, the question is what kind of support is Sybase going to
- >>provide for the SQR Oracle interface? Oracle v. 7 support? Timeframe?
- >>
- >>I got the indication from the SQR Product Manager within Sybase that
- >>they don't even have Oracle's v. 7 developer's version of the database
- >>in house yet for upgrading their SQR product. Does anyone know?
- >>
- >>We've got a substantial amount of work being done in SQR right now and need
- >>to know future directions of the product.
- >
- > It is my understanding that Sybase has stopped selling SQR for non-Sybase
- > data sources, including SQR for Oracle. They are apparently not selling it
- > even for ORACLE V6 any more. I got this information from a member of our
- > Affinity Board (the user group regional presidents who advise Oracle on our
- > direction and status) whose company is very reliant on this product. I am
- > sorry for customers who invested a lot of development resources and time
- > with SQR, but this is a problem frequently with smaller ISV's -- going out
- > of business, or being acquired by a larger player with conflicting product
- > lines or product directions. I would suggest that people interested in SQR
- > and/or the potential of migrating to other reporting tools should gather at
- > the Reporting Tools SIG at this year's IOUW. I further hope that users
- > participating in this SIG (a non-Oracle-sponsored event run entirely by the
- > user community) will bring up these difficult subjects, and report any
- > concensus or conclusions in this forum.
- >
- > -- Dennis Moore, my own opinions, etcetcetc
-
- This message reposted to correct sonew typos.
-
- I talked to M.J. Kahn the product manager for SQR at SQL solutions. She
- said that greater than 50% of the SQR revenue is from Oracle users, and
- it would NOT make good sense to throw that away. She also said that SQL
- Solutions *IS* selling SQR to new Oracle customers. Regarding V7, she does
- not know when they will have a compatible version.
- We SQR users will need to keep our eyes and ears open to make sure that
- Oracle Corp. does not try to thwart SQL Solutions efforts at supporting V7.
-
- SQR is a fine product, and nothing Oracle has can duplicate it's flexibility
- and productivity.
-
- I'll keep the net posted of any info I obtain.
-
- Regards
- Darrell Flenniken
-
- Comments mine only, of course.
-
-