[Info-vax] Final Orace release on VMS.

[Phillip Helbig undress to reply]

In article <romn4b$jff$2 at gioia.aioe.org>, =?UTF-8?Q?Arne_Vajh=c3=b8j?=
<arne at vajhoej.dk> writes: 

> Oracle client is really a server thing not a desktop thing.
> 
> Having a desktop application making a direct connection to the
> database has not been in fashion in the last 20 years.
> 
> And should probably not have been so in the 10 years preceding,
> but ...

The same terms are used for different things.  With Rdb, there is no 
client and server---your process interacts with the database.  Similar 
functionality on Oracle Classic involves a client/server model.  And 
many people connect to Rdb and other databases via ODBC or something 
similar from a desktop machine.