Oracle (not Rdb) database

[Edis, Bob]

G'day Mike

I believe you will have to move to PowerHouse 4GL version 8.2n (or the new
8.3 even better) to get PH to work with Oracle 8.n on an OpenVMS system.  

Good luck with the 3rd party product.  A long as you don't try to customise
it to match the functionality in your existing PH applications, you might
have a reasonable experience.  If you try to customise the new product with
the business rules embedded in your existing apps, it won't be a short,
cheap or pleasurable experience.

Regards,
Blue

-----Original Message-----
From: Mike Chalenburg [mailto:chalenburg@Harding.edu]
Sent: Thursday, June 21, 2001 11:07 AM
To: powerh-l@lists.swau.edu
Subject: Oracle (not Rdb) database


Good morning,

Given the current thread on Rdb, I'd like to get advice on a separate but
related topic.

We are running an Alpha cluster with VMS 7.2-1 (soon to be 7.3) and
Powerhouse 7.10F2.  After years of home grown software, about 95% in
Powerhouse, we are moving to a 3rd party vendor for all of our applications.
We are down to two vendors and the similarity is that they both run on
Oracle 8.1.7 (not Rdb).  We intend to run the database server portion on the
VMS cluster.

There are a few of our applications that will not be replaced by the 3rd
party product.  Also it would be very helpful to be able to modify some of
our applications to look at the Oracle database.  Is any of this feasible?
What kinds of pitfalls are there?  I had understood that we would be able to
use Powerhouse to access the Oracle database.  Is that correct?

Thanks for your help.

Mike

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