>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.
>
Then Alfredo wrote:

>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,
> _______________

Alfredo, you better apply all those devilish and Machiavellin talents to
getting HP to AGGRESSIVELY sell the 3000.

Nick (at least my granddaughter gets an Adager cube( Demos

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