Re: Oracle 8i

Ok, this needs clarifying :

Oracle8i is a trade name, in other words it is the NAME the next revision will go under. The i has been included to make customers (us) aware that this revision is focused on the Internet. Oracle8i includes many feature that would normally go into the next major release (say Oracle9), I suspect we will see the first production versions : Oracle8i Release 8.1.x.x.x.

In respect to training, you would be well advised to get trained in Oracle8 as many of the new features built on the existing Oracle8 features and if you want to be prepared for Oracle8i the JAVA/CORBA training is what you need.

Developer / Designer / Apps.... will all work with Oracle8i some time after it goes production.

Regards
David Russell

Yan Ge wrote in message <360C9824.6C47C04E_at_waksman.rutgers.edu>...
>Hi! There. I am planning to take some ORACLE training courses to
>become an ORACLE
>developer. But due to the recent release of ORACLE 8i Beta version, I
>am some confused. I would appreciate it very much if anyone who has
>experience with O-8i and knows the answers to my following questions can
>
>drop me a line or two.
>
>1. Is ORACLE 8i =ORACEL8 + enhanced web-related features? Or in other
>words, can O-8i do whatever O-8 can do? If so, Should I wait to learn
>O-8i instead of learning O-8 now since it seems that at least they
>differ at the level of file system --will the knowledge of O-8 still
>useful for O-8i, if not 100%, approximately how much?
>
>2. Since Desinger 2000 is for Client/server systems, will it be useless
>for O-8i which is designed for internet computing?
>
>3. How much or in what kind of aspect will O-8i change the roles of
>tools, eg. Developer 2000, JDeveloper and AppBuilder for Java, in web
>applications development?
>
>Thanks in advance for your response to these maybe stupid questions.
>
>Sincerely,
>
>Yan Ge
>
>
>
Received on Sun Sep 27 1998 - 15:59:29 CDT