Re: Re[2]: Oracle vs Mysql

• Original Message -----
  > Jonathan, I've been around for a long time. I've seen things like
  > DataLens for Lotus123, SQL*Calc, Easy*SQL, then there was an Oracle
  

Beat ya: Oracle Add-In for Lotus 123.
Using Ora*Net (Async), V4.1.4.!!!!
1987. And demoed to the press that same year. <g,d&r>

(which BTW was classified by a local "expert" journo - a la Celko - as a "ho-hum" technology. Then a few years later M$ delivered ODBC and this same journo called it the "way of the future"! One wonders....)

> version of then popular DB2 tool, which looked like an IBM 3874 terminal on top
> of VT320, SQL*Graph does deserve a honorable mention, then there was PRO*Pascal,

SQL*QMS. Very good, but never really pushed by Oracle. And I STILL pronounce Pro*Pascal as Pro*Rascal, after all the probs it gave me on demos...

Cheers
Nuno Souto
nsouto_at_optusnet.com.au

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