johnl@ima.UUCP (08/16/85)
I have what I used to think was a simple, straightforward problem, and now
increasingly seems to be a big tough problem.
We have, in our office, about 40 IBM PCs and the like all hooked together
with an Ethernet. They share disk space and printers on two other PCs
running the 3Com EtherShare stuff. We have, for the PC world, a lot of
data -- one of the servers has a 470MB Fujitsu Eagle disk.
We need to have a multi-user data base, for keeping customer records and
things like that. So far, looking for something that will run on PCs over
an Ethernet hasn't turned up much. There's MDBS. There used to be Dbase II.
There will shortly be the Britton-Lee RS 310 backend server machine.
Has anybody any experience with something like this? What we need is, roughly:
-- allow 10 or so users to retrieve and update information
-- imbed database calls in an application, so I don't have to teach
people how to write in SQL or something like it
I don't have any strong opinions on whether the data base would run
distributed on the PCs or on a back-end server. I wouldn't mind ditching
the 3Com software if I found something else that would support 40 users
(Novell, otherwise great, limits you to 20.)
John Levine, Javelin Software, Cambridge MA 617-494-1400
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