Ted Johnson wrote:
>
> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: Re: Minisoft 92 for Java -- now: vendors & plugs
> Date: Sat, 15 Jan 2000 18:09:59 +0100
> From: Lars Appel <[log in to unmask]>
>
> **SNIP HERE**
>
> $semi-serious mode on$
>
> Assuming that every vendor will post short messages announcing *new*
> products for the HP 3000 in this newsgroup/mailing-list in the future,
> would we really have to be afraid to end up with a massive amount of
> postings (to many to copy with them)??
>
> ;-) Lars
> -----------------------------------
>
> Hey at this point I wouldn't mind too much getting a massive amount of
> posting of new products.   We have been looking at the Oracle Gateway
> product to use with our HP3000 and out new Peoplesoft financial
> package.  We were told that while the Gateway works with IMAGE and
> Oracle 7.3.3 it will not currently work with Oracle 8 which is the
> version we are going to be using.  The reasoning.......Oracle is
> still trying to decide if the HP3000 has any future.  If the HP3000
> community can't use this forum to announce new products to the HP3000
> community then we are doing ourselves a great disservice by not
> publicizing what is out there that utilizes the HP3000.

Check very carefully about that statement about Oracle 8, I think your
getting the run around somewhere. The gateway uses the Oracle standard
sql*net protocols and looks like an Oracle 7 server.  Oracle 8 does and
must have backward compatibility to linking to Oracle 7 servers, therefore
it surely must work with the gateway, too.  It does mean running sql*net
compatible with Oracle 7, just like it would talking to an Oracle 7
server.

However, given Oracle/HP oddnesses, I can see that it might not be
"supported", but that probably just means reproducing any problem with an
Oracle 7 server talking to the gateway.

>
> Just my humble opinion....
>
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