Study of feasibility with Oracle Locator or Spatial with personal

I need to store and retrieve spatial data in a GIS software. However, this software runs on a stand alone platform, that is to say a single computer without any network.(Pentium + Windows XP)
Can I imagine to embed Oracle Database personal + spatial module in our software or would it be cost prohibitive for my customers ? (Peharps Dev. partners is a solution ?)
Thanks in advance,
Jean.

Hi,
If you are using Oracle9i you can do this with locator. Before Oracle9i this required spatial.
Hope this helps,
Dan

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