Date:         Mon, 20 Jan 1997 07:57:34 EST
Reply-To:     Chuck Makinson <clmakinson@GOODYEAR.COM>
Sender:       "SAS(r) Discussion" <SAS-L@UGA.CC.UGA.EDU>
From:         Chuck Makinson <clmakinson@GOODYEAR.COM>
Subject:      Re: SAS Access to Oracle: PC 6.11 to Unix
Comments: To: hmclean@peach.fruit.com
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At 03:47 PM 1/17/97 -0600, Hays McLean wrote:
>Chuck Makinson wrote:
>>
>> ...you can connect to Oracle with SAS/Access in two ways:
>>
>> 1) Run PC SAS/Access on the desktop and connect to Oracle with SQL*NET (read
>> only mode).
>>
>> 2) Run Unix SAS/Access, SAS/Connect, (and maybe SAS/Share) on the server and
>> connect to Oracle with SAS/Connect (read/write).
>>
>
>I suppose there are reasons why one might want to do the latter, but if
>nobody uses SAS otherwise on the Unix (which is our case) number 1 would
>be a _lot_ less expensive than getting a new site license.  Do you
>agree?
>
 
It depends upon the number and frequency of users. In (1) you will need a
license for every user (even if they only use SAS one time in a year). For
my Division that would mean 300 PC SAS licenses! Since a SAS server based
license is a 'concurrent' license based on server capacity and not users (2)
is far less
expensive.
 
>Also, on number 2 above, wouldn't you also have to have SAS Access to
>Oracle on the Unix?
 
Yes. The server I am talking about in (2) is the Unix server and the
SAS/Access is SAS/Access-Oracle. You would not need SAS/Access-Oracle on the
PC's however.
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