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| 606.1 |  | TRCA01::SANDHU |  | Wed Apr 04 1990 20:56 | 3 | 
|  |     Okay, can anybody lead to a notes conf etc. where I can get this
    info?
    
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| 606.2 | Not Available | CLYPPR::BOOTH | What am I?...An Oracle? | Thu Apr 05 1990 14:26 | 9 | 
|  |     No, Oracle does not run on AS/400. They "promised" to have a version
    available "within 12 months". What I don't know is why. Why would
    anyone with an AS/400, with a builtin database and thousands of
    applications that tie to it, with future SAA connectivity promised by
    IBM, want to invest in Oracle, with no applications and no SAA
    connectivity. I can't understand this. Anyway, for now the Oracle
    AS/400 market share is 0%.
    
    ---- Michael Booth
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| 606.3 | No Oracle on AS/400 ... yet | MAIL::DUNCANG | Gerry Duncan @KCO - DTN 452-3445 | Fri Apr 06 1990 20:01 | 11 | 
|  |     About a year ago an Oracle pre-sales person told me they were going to
    port as soon as IBM delivered a C compiler for AS/400.  I've kinda'
    lost track of the AS/400 announcements and don't know if they ever
    announced a C compiler or not.  
    
    I would agree with Mike and add that Oracle understands (as we do) that
    IBM's strategy is OS/2 and MVS.
    
    -- gerry
    
    
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| 606.4 | exit | TRCA01::SANDHU |  | Fri Apr 06 1990 22:55 | 12 | 
|  |     Thanks Mike the info was very timely.
    
    I also talked to Oracle and no they do not have an AS/400 version. The story
    was next 6 months! The plans were tools to run on the AS/400 with
    the engine residing on the IBM's new RISC machines.
    
    My question here had to do a customer who has Oracle on a VAX and
    "Because the VAX is not optimized for Oracle" was considering as an
    alternative, AS/400. The sales rep, as you can imagine was rather
    concerned. 
    Glad to say, the customer is no longer considering this as an option.
    
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| 606.5 | VAX optimized for Oracle ?? | MAIL::DUNCANG | Gerry Duncan @KCO - DTN 452-3445 | Tue Apr 17 1990 23:58 | 5 | 
|  |     Re: -1, why in the world should we optimize the VAX for Oracle ??
    
    Also, ask your customer which hardware machines ARE optimized for
    Oracle ?
    
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