Glenn Cole <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

>The single biggest thing I've come upon is a document on the Oracle
>web site that gets deep into the nitty gritty of the product. The
>document is dated June 1997, so it's fairly current. Go to
>
>        <http://www.oracle.com/platforms/hp/pdf/cookbook.pdf>

>Also of interest is an item from the included FAQ (page 17):
>
>        Q: How many customers are using the gateway?
>        A: The Transparent Gateway for IMAGE/SQL is the second-best
>           selling Oracle gateway and the install base (as of May 1997)
>           is well into the triple digits.

Still far short of the six (or more) digits regarding the number of IMAGE
databases out there in real-life OLTP production work, but not too shabby
:-)


Now, if we can get the Oracle folks to mention the great things that IMAGE
databases can do for their clients in terms of raw power and economy for
those pesky OLTP applications, we'll be in business :-)

        Hint:

        Remember my public question to Oracle back at the
        beginning of 1994 in New York ("How much does it cost me to run
        an Oracle database for 100 concurrent OLTP users?")  They felt
        "offended" by my question because it was obviously loaded
        to reflect the unbelievable competitive advantage of IMAGE on
        the HP3000 under MPE/iX :-)

Why can't current Oracle customers using common platforms such as Unix, NT,
etc., *ALSO* have a super-specialized HP3000 running IMAGE under MPE/iX for
their most challenging OLTP tasks?  This would increase the sales of
Oracle's Transparent Gateway for IMAGE/SQL and would make it the BEST
selling Oracle gateway (I have never known Larry Ellison to settle for
second best; his aggressive moves regarding the Macintosh prove this).


(D)Evillishly and (Mac)hiavellically yours,


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