I am very curious in how to play the "ace" MapInfo has given us with their alliance with Oracle. I made a call to MapInfo last week asking what I thought might be a simple question regarding how to buy Oracle 8i and its associated parts and pieces. I have not heard anything yet but expect a response this week. So I looked around abit and found that Oracle too is trying to get this organized..... A bit of news for the "small" Oracle users..... http://www.computerworld.com/home/print.nsf/all/990705B2DE A bit of news for the BIG Oracle users..... http://www.oracle.com/cgi-bin/press/printpr.cgi?file=199907260500.23310.html&mode=corp&td=15&tm=08&fd=15&fm=7&status=Search&ty=1999&limit=50&fy=1999 And some confusion for all of the Linux revolutionists.... http://www.oracle.com/cgi-bin/press/printpr.cgi?file=199907191000.18885.html&mode=corp&td=15&tm=08&fd=15&fm=7&status=Search&ty=1999&limit=50&fy=1999 And if you want to BUY or TEST Oracle 8i got to..... http://oraclestore.oracle.com/orastore/plsql/doc.show Then I went to MapInfo.... http://www.mapinfo.com/tryit_buyit.html - not much help but you can find Spatialware and MapX parts. http://www.mapinfo.com/welcome/mi_oracle/demo_slp.html - and this one really got me puzzeled - An ESRI affect given their introduction of AkeInfo 8? More to come.... FYI MidNight Mapper aka Neil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe from this list, send e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and put "unsubscribe MAPINFO-L" in the message body, or contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]